CareEvolution goes on hiring spree for software, IT workers

CareEvolution wants to hire you. Well, it wants to hire you if you're a highly skilled software developer. The Ann Arbor-based start-up has hired six people since October, expanding its workforce to 38 employees and a couple of summer interns. Those numbers include 22 people at its office in downtown Ann Arbor, and the 8-year-old company plans to hire more. "We're looking for as many as 12-15 people right now," says Vik Kheterpal, principal of CareEvolution. "Our current track is hiring three people per quarter." CareEvolution creates software that allows one hospital's data center to speak to another's, facilitating a sharing of electronic medical records and information that streamlines patient care. So if you go to the University of Michigan Hospital's ER but your primary physician is through St. Joesph Mercy Hospital, CareEvolution lets the ER doctor access whatever files your primary physician has on you. The company has leveraged this technology and its focus on product development instead of marketing and sales for double-digit growth. The firm just watched its revenue jump 56 percent last year and it expects that revenue to grow 96 percent this year. Source: Vik Kheterpal, principal of CareEvolution Writer: Jon Zemke Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.