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Because Medicare incentives under the federal stimulus law vary by type of hospital, rurals expect to see fewer dollars for health IT. Soon after Congress allocated upward of $19 billion in health information technology funding as part of the economic recovery package, a commentary from the...

Although more than fifty years old, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is gaining in market acceptance and market awareness. This was clearly demonstrated April 27-29 during the seventh annual RFID Journal Live Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida. The show's new theme encouraged attendees to look at...

Competing and winning federal research and development (R&D) awards is a high-contact sport. Researching the agencies, laboratories, systems and business processes can be overwhelming. I have learned a few things along the way that may be valuable to companies considering federal funding to support their innovative...

There's no question that biology is a booming business, even in these down times. During the past 25 years, big advances in the biological sciences have revolutionized health care and agriculture, set a foundation for new kinds of industries, manifest in the clusters of biotech companies...

Pfizer Inc., a major biopharmaceutical company, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced May 5 that they have signed a license for human embryonic stem (hES) cell patents for the development of...

Considering the devastating nature of the economy, the cellphone business had a pretty good first quarter, but all signs are pointing to dark days ahead. Dark days for the carriers, not their customers. Sprint was the last of the major phone companies to release its financial...

The Federal Trade Commission has begun an inquiry into whether the close ties between the boards of two of technology’s most prominent companies, Apple and Google, amount to a violation of antitrust laws, according to several people briefed on the inquiry. Apple and Google share two...

It's a new twist on an age-old question: What came first, the chicken or the fertilized egg? So far as flu vaccine production is concerned, the answer is definitely the egg. Millions of contaminant-free, fertilized eggs are needed each year to produce vaccines against predicted strains...

The mission of the Obama government to tackle the U.S. health care system is no easy project. There are so many components that need fixing. Do you fix the increasingly high cost of health care, expand the coverage to a universal system or try to...

Randall Lambrecht, Vice President for Research at Aurora Health Care, clarifies Aurora's mission behind the biorepository project - most importantly the privacy concerns that some have expressed concerning the use or selling of their DNA and medical records to the for-profit genetic research industry and...