Eric Wicklund

Brainshark, a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of a software-as-a-service online platform for the creation, management and tracking of multimedia presentations, is marketing its applications as a means for insurers to educate brokers and their clients on their own terms and schedule.

Hawaii's governor has released $140,000 for a physician training program designed to help ease the state's worsening doctor shortage.

Thousands of Kaiser healthcare employees in California are being asked to switch unions in a bitter year-long battle pitting one of the nation's largest unions against an upstart rival.

A three-year-old developer of vision screening kiosks is using a $1.2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to launch a more comprehensive self-service and wellness station.

SciQuest, a Cary, N.C.-based provider of procurement and supplier enhancement solutions, is joining forces with Atlanta-based e-invoicing provider OB-10 to offer an integrated e-procurement and e-invoicing service for healthcare providers and other industries.

SearchAmerica, a Minneapolis-based provider of financial clearing services for healthcare providers, has launched Collection Performance Advisor, an analytics-driven software platform that not only guides each account to the appropriate collection team or agency, but also monitors the performance of all collection resources and analyzes the hospital-wide results.

Benefitfocus, a Charleston, S.C.-based developer of software solutions for health and voluntary benefits, has acquired BeliefNetworks, Inc., a provider of content and analytic solutions that measure consumer behavior, marketing campaign data and social networking conversations.

Inverness Medical Solutions, the Atlanta-based provider of rapid point-of-care diagnostics, announced a rebranding effort during America's Health Insurance Plans Institute 2010 last week in Las Vegas. Company officials say the move to bring everything under the Alere umbrella more closely aligns the diagnostics business with the its health management business unit.

Fresh off a visit to the White House and a shout-out at this year's American Telemedicine Association conference, American Well President and CEO Roy Schoenberg is eager to keep the momentum going for his Online Care product.

Thomson Reuters, based in New York, has announced the fall launch of version 5.0 of its Advantage Suite decision support system for healthcare payers.