Arlington, Va.-based CACI International, Inc. has announced that its has been awarded a five-year, $16 million contract by the Department of Defense to continue the company’s support for the Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support System at the Joint Medical Logistics Functional Development Center at Fort Detrick in Maryland. DMLSS is an automated information system that provides medical logistics, facility management and medical maintenance support for the U.S. Armed Forces at medical facilities worldwide.

RxNT, an Annapolis, Md.-based electronic prescription provider, is partnering with OhioHealth to introduce a new system at OhioHealth facilities for e-prescribing services for all member physicians. The RxNT system will connect to the Pharmacy Health Information Exchange, operated by SureScripts.

DR Systems of San Diego, makers of the Unity RIS/PACS, has announced contracts totaling nearly $6.5 million with the following five facilities: Arizona Medical Center in Peoria, Ariz.; Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, Calif.; Valley Radiology Consultants in Escondido and Poway, Calif.; Excela Health in Greensburg, Pa.; and Downey Regional Medical Center in Downey, Calif.

Pittsburgh-based Mobile Aspects, which provides RFID-enabled solutions to improve medical device and supply management for hospitals, has received a patent for its iRISupply clinical resource management solution, a cabinet-based system that enables the provision of real-time information to store, track and manage high-cost inventories used in surgical procedures.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SonicWALL, Inc. has announced that Potomac Hospital of Woodbridge, Va. has selected the company’s network security, secure wireless, remote access and data backup solutions.

Atlanta-based eMedicalFiles, a Web-based health information technology company, has announced that its MDAware 2.2 EHR has earned ambulatory EHR accreditation for 2006 from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT).

Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based gloStream has announced that its flagship EMR product, gloEMR version 3.5, has met CCHIT certification for ambulatory EHR criteria for 2006.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth has announced that the software component of its service-based EMR, athenaClinicals Version .15 Release, has met CCHIT certification for ambulatory EHR criteria for 2006.

ZirMed, a Louisville, Ky.-based provider of revenue cycle management solutions for healthcare providers, has selected Austin, Texas-based Caringo, Inc.’s Caringo CAStor to accommodate its growing data load and create a compliant and scalable archive of sensitive records.

MedcomSoft, Inc., an Atlanta-based provider of interoperable electronic health records, has announced that the University of Central Missouri has selected the MedcomSoft Record software solution for EHR and Practice Management systems for the university’s health center.

World Wide Packets, a Spokane Valley, Wash.-based provider of carrier Ethernet solutions, has announced that the Iowa Health System has deployed the company’s LightningEdge platform in the recently completed first phase of its privately owned fiber optic medical health network connecting major medical facilities and data centers throughout Iowa, western Illinois and eastern Nebraska.

Royal Philips Electronics, based in Andover, Mass., has announced that the Visiting Nurse Associations of America has awarded a contract to Philips Consumer Healthcare Solutions as a “preferred provider” for telehealth services and products for VNAA members.

InSite One, a Wallingford, Conn.-based provider of managed archive, storage and disaster recovery services for digital diagnostic imaging, has announced that Downey Regional Medical Center of Downey, Calif. has, through dealer DR Systems, contracted with the company for InDex workflow solutions.

Picis, Inc. of Wakefield, Mass. has released CareSuite ED PulseCheck version 3.7, a “comprehensive and integrated emergency department information system (EDIS) designed to help healthcare organizations improve productivity, operational efficiency and patient safety in emergency departments.

Aventyn, Inc. of Carlsbad, Calif. has announced the release of CLIP version 1.2, a Clinical Information Processing Platform with integrated RFID capability that simplifies patient and medical asset tracking, among other features.

The Eclipsys Corporation of Boca Raton, Fla. has announced that St. Barnabas Hospital in The Bronx, N.Y. has successfully activated Eclipsys Sunrise Ambulatory Care in the pediatric divisions of all three of its ambulatory care centers.

SRSsoft of Montvale, N.J. has announced that the Wheaton Eye Clinic of Wheaton, Ill. has chosen SRS Chart Manager for implementation by its 175 system users.

Birmingham, Ala.-based SunGard has announced that Paramount Health Care in northwest Ohio will implement EXP MACESS as its enterprise-wide solution for document workflow, service forms, capture and storage technology.

MEDirect Latino, Inc. of Pompano Beach, Fla., a national provider of direct-to-consumer Medicare reimbursed medical products focused exclusively on chronic issues affecting the Hispanic community, has announced that it has been issued a Medicaid Provider License by the State of Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services and will begin servicing that state’s Medicaid beneficiaries.

Krames, a Yardley, Pa.-based division of MediMedia, has announced that St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md. has selected Krames On-Demand, an enterprise-wide print-on-demand patient education solution that offers more than 9,000 single-topic HealthSheets.

SoftLight Development of Irving, Texas has announced the introduction of Manage My Data, a Web-base data management application designed specifically for medical offices and practice management firms.

Sigaba, a San Mateo, Calif.-based deliverer of secure messaging solutions, has announced the release of Sigaba Secure Messaging 6.0.

Nuesoft Technologies of Atlanta has announced that SynaMed, Inc. has joined the company’s Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Partnership Program, designed to offer an integrated EMR and practice management product.

Watertown, Mass.-based Molecular, Inc., an Internet consulting firm, and Pri-Med, a provider of accredited continuing medical education (CME) programs for U.S. physicians, have unveiled a redesign of Pri-Med’s Web site. The new site gives practicing physicians the opportunity to design personalized training courses to match specific needs and interests and with educational formats they select.

RF Code, Inc., a Mesa, Ariz.-based provider of enterprise-class active RFID technology and asset tracking solutions, has announced an expanded partnership with the ITEC Corporation, a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider and distributor in Japan.

The Oracle Corporation of Redwood Shores, Calif. has announced that Silver Cross Hospital of Joliet, Ill. has deployed a Web portal solution built on Oracle infrastructure software to provide physicians, clinicians and employees with secure, reliable and remote access to hospital applications and data.

OTN, a South San Francisco-based physician services company, and Oncology Molecular Imaging, LLC, a Jupiter, Fla.-based oncology-focused ancillary services company, have announced an exclusive strategic alliance agreement whereby OTN will provide its customers with information and access to OMI’s radiation therapy and diagnostic imaging services.

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has announced that St. Louis-based MDTablet’s product, MDTablet EHR Version 2.6.7, is certified and meets CCHIT ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2006.

Portland, Me.-based Parco Wireless has received notification that the federal Communications Commission has awarded authorization for the OEM sub-components of the company’s Precis Location System.

Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, Pa. has announced the availability of syngo Dynamics version 6, billed as “ a multi-modality, dynamic image review and reporting solution that delivers real-time data transfer between Siemens’ Sensis XP, a cutting-edge interventional cardiology and electrophysiology recording solution, and syngo Dynamics.”

Dynamic Imaging of Allendale, N.J. has announced the general release of IntegradWeb RIS/PACS, an all-inclusive, unified solution for ambulatory imaging centers and radiology group practices.

IBM has announced that it has been selected as the strategic technology vendor for St. Anthony’s Medical Center of St. Louis.

San Diego-based Coradiant, Inc. has announced that Partners HealthCare has deployed the company’s Web.I Performance Analytics products.

Proquis, Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill. has unveiled allCLEAR version 7.10, the latest version of its professional flowchart software package.

Maitland, Fla.-based Galvanon, an NCR Corporation, has secured contracts with Dreyer Medical Clinic in Aurora, Ill., the Scarsdale Medical Group in Scarsdale, N.Y. and the Medical Clinic of North Texas in Dallas to install MediKiosk, a patient self-service check-in solution that allows patients to identify themselves upon arrival at a facility, view and confirm demographic and insurance information, electronically sign consent documents and make co-payments.

Network Appliance, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. has announced that FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a private, nongovernmental, non-profit health care network serving 15 counties in the mid-Carolinas, has consolidated its data center applications and storage appliances onto NetApp unified storage solutions.

Verizon Business has deployed a high-capacity optical network at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, connecting the center’s main campus buildings and 24 remote locations throughout Brooklyn. The new network will serve as the foundation for the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange, a regional health care network scheduled for launch in 2008.

St. Louis-based Elsevier, a publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has enhanced MD Consult, its online clinical reference tool, to accelerate access to information and educational content for better diagnosis and treatment. The company is offering free access to MD Consult through May 2007.

Reno, Nev.-based NEC Unified Solutions, a provider of VoIP and data communications, has announced the availability of the UNIVERGE Attendant (UA5200) for the enterprise and small-medium business markets. The call management application features a new user interface, advanced call-processing capabilities, enhanced directory functionality and improved caller response time with features designed for healthcare markets, among others.

Ottawa, Canada-based Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. has introduced the ZL70101 transceiver chip, a low-power RF system-on-a-chip solution for use in implanted medical devices, programmers and monitoring base stations.

San Diego-based Janus Health has unveiled JanusOS, a mobile patient management system that provides the tools and services physicians need to bring care directly to the home. Physicians and medical groups are charged by Janus on a per-housecall basis, and the solution streamlines and supports all primary housecall functions, including practice management, paperless, wireless patient care management and mobile diagnostics.

San Francisco-based Quantros, Inc. and Array Networks have announced a partnership which will enable healthcare providers and their vendors to more efficiently integrate disparate data systems and provide centralized data integration with secure, live data feeds. Quantros is including Array’s new SiteDirect SSL VPN in its two new products, Quantros Connect and Quantros Integrate.

Endosoft of Schenectady, N.Y., a division of Utech Products, Inc., has announced that the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) has certified Endosoft Suite Version 3.0.3.5 as meeting CCHIT ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2006.

Aperio Technologies of Vista, Calif. has implemented support for BigTIFF – Tagged Image File Format for files which are larger than 4 gigabytes – across all its products and systems, This enhancement to the TIFF standard enables image files larger than 4GB to be created and processed in a backward-compatible fashion.

MedQuist, Inc. of Mount Laurel, N.J. has announced the release of version 1.1 of its voice capture platform, DocQment Ovation.

MediSolution, a Montreal-based healthcare IT company, has announced that Universal Health Services, Inc., a King of Prussia, Pa.-based national healthcare management company, has purchased the company’s automated TD-Synergy laboratory information system and Virtuo Business Intelligence solution for system-wide implementation in their acute-care hospitals.

MedSolutions, a Nashville-based provider of analytics to the management of radiology services for health plans and governmental agencies, has entered into an agreement with CIGNA HealthCare to provide radiology management programs, including access to MedSolutions’ national imaging network, radiology cost management and quality improvement programs.

Salt Lake City-based 3M Health Information Systems has been selected by the Science Applications International Corporation to provide data mapping and terminology consulting services in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense public health initiative.