Eric Wicklund

American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home.

GE Healthcare announced Wednesday morning the acquisition of MedPlexus, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of EMR/PM solutions for independent clinical practices.

Riding on the surge of interest in telecommunications created by this month’s launch of the National Broadband Plan, Verizon Business has announced a partnership with Cisco to boost video conferencing.

Emdeon is boosting its portfolio of service offerings to payers with the planned acquisition of Healthcare Technology Management Services.

American Well, which offers Web-based physician visits for members of health plans in Hawaii and Minnesota, has landed another contract closer to home.

Today’s hospitals are being designed with mobility in mind, making it essential that physicians and nurses have access to patient data at a moment’s notice from anywhere in the facility.

The forecast for healthcare these days seems to be cloudy.

University Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., part of State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University, has two surgery areas – 12 rooms on the fifth floor for adults and four rooms on the third floor for children. And no one there has yet developed the technology to transport equipment instantaneously from one floor to the other, a la Star Trek.

Healthcare Management Systems, Inc., is helping a rural health network in Texas automate its financial activities and share clinical data through a community-based electronic medical record.

AMICAS, the Boston-based provider of radiology and image and information management solutions, which announced last December that it would be acquired by Chicago-based private equity firm Thoma Bravo, LLC, for roughly $217 million, is now being wooed by Merge Healthcare, Inc., which is offering approximately $248 million for the company.