Fierce Health Payers April 30, 2021
Heather Landi

As Microsoft pushes further into healthcare, Allscripts expects to strategically benefit from its partnership with the tech giant as it looks to strengthen its position in the health IT market.

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced plans to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion. Nuance is considered a pioneer in speech recognition and artificial intelligence technology used in healthcare.

“Microsoft is getting into healthcare in a very big way,” said Allscripts CEO Paul Black during the company’s first-quarter 2021 earnings call Thursday.

“They will continue to be an enterprise software player. They’ll continue to have, if you will, an operating system that resides inside of their cloud. That’s an interesting distinction between them and the other people out...

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