Here are four things to know about the transaction.
1. Under the terms of the deal, Merge shareholders will receive $7.13 per share in cash.
2. Merge now joins IBM’s Watson Health business unit.
3. Merge will be used to augment IBM’s medical image analysis and cross-referencing capabilities within the Watson Health Cloud, which has 315 billion data points.
4. Merge clients will also be able to compare medical images against a patient’s medical history and history of similar patients.
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