Roper reels in Chicago health care tech firm

SARASOTA — Roper Industries, a conglomerate in everything from software to water to transportation, has acquired Strata Decision Technology, a Chicago-based cloud-computing analytics firm with a focus on health care clients.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.

Strata, according to a release, handles financial planning, decision support and cost improvement for the health care industry. More than 1,000 hospitals in the United States use Strata's products, under a software as a service model, the release adds. The firm was founded in 1996.