Microsoft is buying Sentillion to add another player to its team. The software revealed its intention to buy Sentillion this week.

According to the details, Microsoft revealed in a press statement on Thursday that it plans to invest in health care software industry and has intentions to buy Sentillion. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet. It is expected that the deal will be finalized and closed in early months of 2010.

Microsoft says that it will merge the software technology of Sentillion with its existing project Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS) and hopes that the medical software would help clinicians in making their work fluent and would provide them a new insight into their work. UIS was designed to integrate medical databases and to make health care systems more sophisticated for the medical institutes and professionals. Microsoft claims that Amlaga UIS is currently employed in more than hundred hospitals across the country while Sentillion has been providing software to over 1,000 hospitals.

US government plans to digitize the medical records of hospitals. A research firm IDC says that US government intends to spend $ 20.4 billion on health and medical related technology.

Sentillion is a Massachusetts-based software company which is providing database management and identity access services to more than 500,000 customer companies across Europe and North America. Sentillion will continue its stay in its headquarters in Andover, MA and will continue providing its services through other products to its customers. If the deal is finalized, Microsoft will focus on merging the health care technologies of both the companies.

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