Health information technology company Click4Care has added Ohio State University’s employee health plan as a client for its care management services.

Akron now has a biomedical district, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. With a few minor changes, city council approved legislation Monday that outlined the district — changing it from concept to reality — and made several zoning changes within the area that encompasses the city’s three downtown hospitals and the University of Akron.

Christ Hospital and the federal government have reached a settlement agreement on a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the hospital of defrauding federal health-care programs, reported the Business Courier of Cincinnati.

Industry executives at the Healthcare IT Summit in La Quinta, Calif., last week voted the Columbus-area company’s care-management software as having the “greatest market potential” in the insurance category.

The Columbus-area technology company has quickly built a strong reputation around its software, which manages patient care and automates management requirements by health insurers. In the past two years, it’s been recognized nationally as one of the country’s fastest-growing small businesses, yet as Click4Care hopes to expand larger (and often better-financed), competitors are also planning to gobble up more businesses. These competitors see the same wide-open market that Click4Care does and, just like Click4Care, want to get more of the market for themselves.