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Watson to Gain Ability to "See" with Planned $1B Acquisition of Merge Healthcare

August 6, 2015 9:19 AM EDT

ARMONK, N.Y. and CHICAGO, Aug. 6, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Watson will gain the ability to "see" by bringing together Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare Incorporated's (NASDAQ: MRGE) medical imaging management platform.  IBM plans to acquire Merge, a leading provider of medical image handling and processing, interoperability and clinical systems designed to advance healthcare quality and efficiency, in an effort to unlock the... More