IBM to acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B

IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) announced Thursday it would acquire Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Truven Health Analytics later this year for $2.6 billion.

It’s the fourth health data acquisition for IBM in less than a year following the purchases of Merge Healthcare, Explorys and Phytel – and the largest in three years – according to Bloomberg Business.

Adding Truven – which provides data management and analytics to more than 8,500 health care companies for roughly 215 million individuals – would bring the number of patients recorded in IBM’s Watson Health division to about 300 million.

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