Microsoft Bets Big On Health With $19.7 Bn Purchase Of Nuance By John BIERS on April 13 2021 10:18 AM Microsoft is to acquire artificial intelligence and cloud computing company Nuance for $19.7 billion, bolstering its healthcare presence with a leader in voice recognition technology. Nuance's technology includes a conversational AI tool versed in specialized medical terms, freeing physicians from note-taking and allowing better patient-physician interactions in person or in the telemedicine appointments that have taken off during the pandemic, executives said. Nuance's program "has completely redefined clinical documentation by capturing and contextualizing every words of the physician/patient encounter and automatically documenting it," said Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella during a briefing Monday.