Siemens Healthcare has signed a seven-year, $135 million contract with the University of Pennsylvania Health System to provide integrated service management solutions.

Skylight Healthcare, base din San Diego, has unveiled iCareRounds, a full-featured video communications platform designed to link hospital patients with connected members of their care team through Skylight’s ACCESS Interactive Patient Care system and the newly released iCarePassport tool.

Thomson Reuters, based in New York, has announced that Halifax Regional Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., has signed a multi-year agreement to use the company’s Micromedex solutions as its source for evidence-based clinical reference information.

The Teradata Corporation, a Washington-based developer of data warehousing and enterprise analytics, and Claraview, a provider of business intelligence strategy and technology consulting services, have announced the availability of Teradata Accelerate for Healthcare, a packaged solution that combines Claraview’s Provider Analytics software and services portfolio with the Teradata Healthcare Logical Date Model database and platform family.

Picis, Inc., based in Wakefield, Mass., has been awarded two Department of Veterans Affairs contracts by the Veterans Integrated Service Network 10, also know as the VA Healthcare System of Ohio, to install the Picis Anesthesia Manager and Critical Care Manager solutions, part of the CareSuite family, at its five VA medical centers. In addition, the company has announced that the following hospitals have deployed the Picis CareSuite high-acuity solutions and/or Picis LYNX revenue management solutions: The VA Medical Center in San Francisco, St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, Calif., Midlands Hospital in Papillion, Neb., Dameron Hospital in Stockton, Calif., Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Mass., and Jewish Hospital Medical Center Northeast.

GE Healthcare, based in Barrington, Ill., has announced a pilot project at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City to test a new solution designed to deliver real-time clinical data and treatment options to doctors at the point of care. The full solution is scheduled to be unveiled at the March meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). In addition, GE Healthcare has launched the $250 million “GE Healthymagination Fund” to invest in high-potential healthcare technology companies, part of the company’s $6 billion Healthymagination initiative,

The Cerner Corporation, based in Kansas City, Mo., has announced a partnership with Vernon Hills, Ill.-based CDW Healthcare to offer Cerner physician practice solutions through the CDW network.

Wolters Kluwer Health, the Philadelphia-based subsidiary of the Wolters Kluwer Corporation of Minneapolis, has announced that the SwedishAmerican Health System in Illinois will implement the company’s ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support, as the electronic order set solution for SwedishAmerican Hospital. In addition, the company has announced that the Sadler Clinic in Texas has selected its ProVation MD software for procedure documentation and coding.

McKesson Provider Technologies of Atlanta has announced that The Medical Center of Arlington, Texas, will test the newest updates of the company’s Anesthesia-Rx automated anesthesia cart with a touch-screen-driven medication dispensing process. The company has also announced the addition of Pegasystems, Computer Programs and Systems (CPSI) and Acesis to its list of InterQual Alliance Partners.