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New York-based Amicore Inc has acquired certain assets of CareWide Inc. of Wayne, Penn., including its Web-based physician practice management software. Terms were not disclosed. IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Pfizer Inc. formed Amicore in 2001 to develop or buy technology that would interest the huge market of solo and small physician practices. Last October, Amicore acquired PenChart Corp., a Glastonbury, Conn.-based vendor of electronic medical records software. CareWide is an application service provider, remotely hosting practice management software accessible via the Internet. The company is developing wireless access through hand-held computing devices to enable physicians to view patient data and schedules, and capture charge data. About 100 physicians are contracted to use CareWide's software and Amicore's goal is to reach the 1,000 mark by year-end. Following integration of CareWide and PenChart, Amicore will have its initial core product for marketing to physicians. It expects to have the product available during the second half of this year. Its goal is to offer a single, integrated suite of computerized patient records and practice management software for small physician practices, accessible via the Internet to desktops or hand-held computing devices.