Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records,...
Like a tank, the recession continues to roll right over companies. Take Fleetwood Enterprises. Vacation trailers and modular houses don't sell when people are out of work and struggling with upside-down mortgages. Even if someone wants to buy, banks have clamped down on credit, making...
After years of talk about wireless technologies' potential for widespread use in medical applications, they appear to be ready for a takeoff in adoption within health care organizations. And some doctors and IT professionals think that wireless has the potential to transform health care in...
As Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle marks Digital Health Information week, health information technology leaders will gather for WTN Media’s seventh annual Digital Healthcare Conference. The event takes place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Fluno Center for Executive Education this Wednesday and Thursday, May 6 -7....
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of "meaningful use" for healthcare information technology. CHIME submitted its statement to a hearing of the National Committee on Vital and Health...
Two national publications have recently recognized Madison as an emerging biotechnology cluster. Biotech is so successful at attracting brainpower, related industries, and money to regions that today almost everybody is trying to get into the act. Obviously, some regions will fare better than...
Obviously, questions regarding salary and benefits are top-of-mind when you apply for a job. However, your salary requirements are not the employer's main concern. The hiring executive is more interested in what you can do for the company -- how you can add value to...
What's more important when you sign up for your Internet service: getting a lower price upfront or being assured that your bill won't jump later? That's the crux of the debate over broadband caps, a pricing system some Internet providers have been pushing lately. The idea behind...
Prodesse, Inc. announced today that several clinical laboratories using the ProFlu+ Assay have received Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmation of positive swine flu from specimens initially identified as Influenza A by ProFlu+. The positive results, spread throughout the US, were not...
Project HealthDesign, a national program designed to support health and information technology pioneers to create a new generation of personal health records (PHR) systems, has been awarded a $5.3 million addition to its grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, bringing the project's total funding...