Lexmark International has acquired Acuo Technologies, a developer of software and services for clinical content management, data migration and vendor neutral archives (VNA), for $45 million.

Acuo will become a part of Perceptive Software, a Lexmark company.

According to a press release, the combination of Acuo and Lexmark's Perceptive Software healthcare software will allow customers to deploy an enterprise-wide access platform for clinical content via an EMR system. Acuo Technologies' Universal Clinical Platform is a vendor-neutral foundation that consolidates medical images. Its offerings include an integration point for medical imaging assets.

Perceptive and Acuo will offer enterprise content management, VNA with clinical content viewing and database conversion.