PAS Forms Partnership, Globecomm Gets Contract and TCI Adds Lender

PAS partners with Port Washington company

Hauppauge-based Patient Access Solutions said Wednesday it's integrating its digital pen product with Port Washington-based Sandata Technologies' home health care program.

Under the agreement, Sandata will be able to use PAS's Mobipen, which writes like an ordinary pen while recording what's written to be transferred to a computer later, for all of its home health care clients. The Mobipen is used by home health care providers to track and document patient visits.

The two companies said the partnership should increase revenue for each of them, and they estimate the new market for the Mobipen to be about 100,000 clients.

"Our growing base of home care clients is looking for total solutions, and this Mobipen integration fills that void for the client base of both companies," Bruce Weitzberg, chief executive of PAS, said in a statement.

Globecomm lands $18 million contract

Hauppauge-based Globecomm Systems said Friday it received a new $18 million contract from broadband satellite network provider Hughes Network Systems.

The agreement calls for Globecomm to design, test and install systems that will allow Hughes to offer high-speed communications over its new satellite system slated for 2012.

The contract includes $6 million worth of additional options that can be exercised over five years, which would bring the total contract value to $24 million.

Globecomm Chief Executive David Hershberg said in a statement the contract is particularly important because it lifts the local company's infrastructure division, which has been hampered by the recession.

TCI adds Connecticut lender to retail product

Teledata Communications Inc. has signed on a new credit union member to its retail lending software product.

Connecticut-based Mutual Service Credit Union has entered the retail lending market by using Hauppauge-based TCI's software. TCI, which offers lending software to credit unions, banks and other lenders, will link Mutual Service to retailers that offer products members may need to finance, like HVAC, oil burner replacement or home improvements. The credit union formerly didn't offer financing for such products.