This Week in Healthcare IT

M&A, Financial Reports and Funding

Kareo, a provider of Web-based applications for physicians, will use a $9.5 million investment from venture capital firm OpenView Venture Partners to accelerate growth.

Contracts

Cass County Memorial Hospital in Iowa has selected e-MDs' EHR and practice management software...The Social Security Administration has selected Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp., Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for IT support contracts worth $2.8 billion...The South Central Public Health District in Idaho has selected online medical scheduling software from eMedischedule.com.

Teladoc -- a national network of board-certified physicians who provide telehealth consultations -- has chosen Advantec's HR, payroll and benefits technology services...The University Medical Center of Southern Nevada has selected InnerWireless as its wireless services provider...The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Pennsylvania has selected TeleHealth Services' interactive patient education programs.
Twenty-nine health care facilities in the U.S. have selected Picis' LYNX revenue management programs for their EDs...The New Jersey Health IT Extension Center has selected PatientPoint to provide self-service applications and EHR consulting services...Palmetto Health Richland Hospital in South Carolina has selected Masimo's Patient SafetyNet, a remote patient monitoring and alert system...EHR provider eClinicalWorks has selected secure applications provider Array Networks' AppVelocity server load balancer and application delivery controller.

Product Development and Marketing

EHR provider Availity has renewed its partnership with e-prescribing and communication services provider Prematics...Mediware Information Systems has expanded the partnership between its blood transfusion management software and Epic Systems' EHR system for use in acute care hospitals.
Aprima Medical Software has partnered with technology company DEVsource to combine DEVsource technology with Aprima's EHR, practice management and revenue cycle management applications...BridgeHead Software and Dell have partnered to develop the Medical Archive program, which stores hospital patient and administrative data.

Personnel

Ken Rardin -- former president and CEO of IMNET Systems, Merge Healthcare, Software AG International and GMD International -- has been named president and CEO of telemedicine services provider REACH Call.