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The New York Times recently ran an article about the realities of being let go from Microsoft, a technology company not historically known for letting go of its own talent. In the past, those who left did so on their own or cashed out and...

GE Healthcre unveiled a number of products Tuesday aimed to help hospitals speed adoption of electronic health records at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. Dubbed the GE Digital Day One program and based on the GE Centricity Enterprise portfolio, the...

Milwaukee - Merge Healthcare announced that it will donate $1 million over the next two years to the World Health Imaging Alliance, a non-profit group that brings low-cost, sustainable imaging to underserved communities. The Milwaukee company's donation will include staff time, software licenses, donated hardware and...

A Madison stem cell research company has received a $250,000 Technology Venture Fund loan, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced today. The firm will use the funds to develop two new technologies for stem cell research. The state Department of Commerce has also certified the...

Several agencies in the federal government plan this year to launch pilots of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Agencies will use Harris Corp.'s CONNECT, according to the company, a product developed to allow agencies and healthcare providers to exchange patient information electronically on...

The concept of Digital Healthcare is working its way into our day-to-day vernacular particularly given the push by our new U.S. President, who has vowed that the U.S. healthcare system will be digitalized during the next 5 years. But for the layman what does this...

Spam is no longer merely nuisance e-mail run amok. Spam is electronic junk mail that doesn't have to be malicious to be costly. The loss of productivity alone adds up. Ferris Research, a San Francisco-based information technology market research firm, estimated it costs 4 cents...

For those not at HIMMS this week, here’s a video with the Wisconsin Health Exchange discussing their choice of Amalga from Microsoft for their solution for integrating and aggregating data in the ER rooms. The Medical Quack covered the original release a short while...

Whether you love it or hate it, the Small Business Administration has a new leader. The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed President Obama's nominee, Karen Gordon Mills, as the organization's administrator late last week. Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu took this to mean, "[S]he is...

From a scary story of newborn twins struggling for their lives to a cinematic allusion of driving a car over a cliff, the central theme of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's 2009 Annual Conference and Exhibition -- meaningful use of stimulus money to...