Natick

Interbit Data, of Natick, has created a program that it says will allow for speedier interactions through secure texting while still protecting patient information.

Busek Co., of Natick, has partnered with NASA to develop a safer, cheaper and “greener” propellant to replace a propellant that has been in service since the 1960's.

Local stakeholders are in the process of re-pitching a $34-million downtown Framingham satellite campus of Massachusetts Bay Community College to the Baker Administration after a host of community college capital projects across the state have been put on hold.

HEIDI M. LANDERS and REBECCA LYNCH were hired by Worcester social service agency The Bridge of Central Massachusetts. Landers is director of nursing. A resident of Barre, she is a graduate of Worcester State University, with a bachelor's degree in nursing and earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from Salem State University. Lynch was named director of development and marketing. Before joining The Bridge, she worked for Natick Visiting Nurse Association and The Price Center in Newton. Lynch has a bachelor's degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif., and a master's degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif., both in English.

The Massachusetts office of the U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded Natick-based Middlesex Savings Bank with its Lender of the Year to New Business Award.

Total Wine & More, a national liquor retailer, has opened its first Massachusetts store at the Clover Leaf Mall on Speen Street in Natick.

AFC Doctors Express, the urgent care services company that is partnering with the Central Massachusetts Independent Physicians Association (CMIPA) to provide urgent care to its patients, celebrated the opening of its first Worcester location on Stafford Street Wednesday evening.

UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus received only a “C” score in an industry watchdog's annual ranking of hospital safety.

In fiscal 2014, Saint Vincent Hospital was the most profitable outside of Greater Boston at $65.2 million.

It would be the largest acquisition in the history of the technology sector, but for locals, the bigger story is what's ahead for EMC's Hopkinton operations when Dell acquires the data-storage giant for $67 billion.