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Cerner and Oracle jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire Cerner in a $28 billion deal.
- Microsoft will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion. The tech giant expects the deal to close by the end of 2021.
- EHR company Athenahealth entered an agreement to be jointly acquired by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital for $17 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.
- Nashville, Tenn.-based data analytics firm Change Healthcare will combine with UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum in a deal amounting to about $13 billion. The deal is expected to close in April.
- Baxter acquired medical equipment developer Hillrom for about $10.5 billion.
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