IBM Set to Land Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 Billion

    IBM’s game-playing super computer gets a big boost.

    FOX’s Kerin McCue has the story:

    We all remember the big-splash “Watson” made on Jeopardy:

    (Jeopardy) “Watson… Who is Jude? Yes… Olympic oddities for $200…”

    But IBM’s cognitive computing system was built for more than just winning ‘Daily Doubles’.

    The Armonk, New York, based company is buying Truven Health Analytics for $2.6-billion to bolster Watson’s health care capabilities.

    They say this deal will net more than 8,000 clients. With all the health-related data it can hold, an aggregate of nearly 300 million patients could benefit.

    This agreement with Truven is IBM’s fourth health-related acquisition since they launched their Watson health cloud computing platform last spring.

    Kerin McCue, FOX News.

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