Microsoft plans to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT company that provides software applications for caregivers and physicians. Microsoft has made a number of partnerships in health care IT throughout 2009, including a deal with the American Medical Association to give physicians access to patient records through Microsoft’s HealthVault application. IT companies ranging from Google to Intel and Oracle have also pushed into the health care IT space.
– Microsoft
announced plans Dec. 10 to acquire Sentillion, a privately held health care IT
company. On its Website, Sentillion advertises itself as producing
quot;identity and access management technology quot; that allows hospitals and
caregivers to incorporate and control quot;islands of compu…