Below are six acquisitions worth more than $100 million occurring in the digital healthcare industry during the past six months:
- Salesforce on Dec. 1 signed a definitive agreement to acquire workplace collaboration platform Slack for $27.7 billion.
- Cerner formed an agreement Dec. 16 to acquire Kantar Health, the clinical research division of data and consulting company Kantar Group, for $375 million.
- UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum announced plans Jan. 6 to buy data analytics firm Change Healthcare for about $13 billion.
- Philips signed an agreement Jan. 19 to acquire Capsule Technologies, a medical device integration and data technologies company, for $635 million.
- New York City-based payer management company MultiPlan on Jan. 21 agreed to acquire Discovery Health Partners, a healthcare revenue analytics and technology company, for about $155 million.
- Microsoft said April 12 it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in an all-cash transaction valued at $19.7 billion, including debt assumption.
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