The European Commission is due to decide on the agreement by 21 December. Microsoft is currently negotiating a takeover of Nuance with the British antitrust authority CMA, sources said.
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The agreement, which will strengthen Microsoft’s presence in the field of cloud solutions for healthcare customers, was announced by the American company in April. He then included net debt in the value of the transaction, stating a total of $ 19.7 billion.
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The companies started cooperating in 2019 on the automation of medical documentation. Both benefit from the boom in remote medicine, as some of the contacts with doctors have moved to the Internet during the covid-19 pandemic.
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Nuance products (Dragon Ambient eXperience, Dragon Medical One or PowerScribe One) are used by over 55 percent of U.S. physicians and 77 percent of U.S. hospitals. It is a model called SaaS, ie software as a service, which allows you to connect to these applications via the Microsoft Azure cloud service.
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Nuance assisted Apple in launching Siri Personal Assistant. It creates software that is used, for example, in the automotive industry.
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