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In June, health-care professionals from across the state and New England met to discuss how to build a telehealth initiative in New Hampshire. The two-day “Telehealth NH” seminar was sponsored by the North Country Health Consortium Inc., a Littleton-based rural…

Amisys Synertech Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based provider of advanced software products and claims processing services for health-care payers, and Manchester-based Choicelinx Corp., a provider of Web-based solutions and consumer-directed technology products for the health insurance industry, have signed a definitive…

Exeter Hospital has opened its $6 million radiation therapy center, becoming the region’s only accredited comprehensive community hospital cancer program. In 2003, Exeter Hospital was granted a certificate of need from the state to add radiation therapy to its cancer…

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Waltham, Mass. — the largest residential real estate brokerage company in New England — has bought Preferred Properties Inc. of Moultonboro. The purchase price was not disclosed. In 2003, Preferred Properties’ 31 residential real estate…

The Concord Planning Board has postponed a decision on a proposed 124-townhouse development on Bog Road. Developer Reggie Moreau of R.J. Moreau Communities in Bedford filed his application for the Vineyards townhouses last fall, and then went through a series…

The Portsmouth Planning Board has approved site plans for a new 22,000-square-foot Hilton Hotel along Hanover and High streets, but the project could face civil action over its potential threat to downtown parking. The board voted 7-2 to approve Cathartes…

An Auburn real estate developer is planning to buy the 140-acre riverfront farm in Franklin where Daniel Webster grew up and turn it into retirement housing. Elmer Pease II of PD Associates Real Estate Consultants signed a purchase and sales…

Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Nashua was the top recipient of an annual federal grant to help alleviate the lack of affordable housing and promote economic development in Nashua. The nonprofit received a total of about $487,000 in financial assistance,…

The U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress passed a defense bill that provides contracts to several New Hampshire firms, led by BAE Systems. The conference report on the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriations Act includes $103.65 million in federal funding sought…

The Sununu bill is an attempt to prevent conflicting state regulations from slowing introduction of the technology The Senate Commerce Committee has added some confusion to the effort to bar states from regulating Voice over Internet Protocol service for three…