Here are seven things to know:
1. Microsoft and GE established the 50-50 joint venture, Caradigm, in 2011.
2. Caradigm is now a wholly-owned affiliate of GE Healthcare, a GE company.
3. Microsoft has not disclosed why it bowed out as an investor.
4. Caradigm is composed of Microsoft’s Amalga enterprise healthcare data and intelligence system and GE Healthcare’s various technologies.
5. Caradigm creates software for hospitals and physicians to access, analyze and act on their own data.
6. The startup has more than 200 customers and more than 1,500 hospitals use the company’s products.
7. Caradigm named Neal Singh its new CEO this week. Mr. Singh previously served as the startup’s chief technology officer.
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