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On March 12th in an OpEd piece for the Wall Street Journal titled “Obama's $80 Billion Exaggeration”, respected physicians and authors Jerome Groopman, MD and Pamela Hartzband, MD questioned President Obama's claim that electronic medical records would save $80 billion annually in healthcare costs while...

Full-thickness human skin equivalent exhibits characteristics of native human skin MADISON – Stratatech Corp., a privately-held regenerative medicine company, today announced that it has launched the StrataTest® human skin model. Composed of both an epidermis and a dermis, the StrataTest® human skin model displays the physical, chemical...

SAN FRANCISCO--Google plans to unveil a service called Google Voice on Thursday that indicates Google wants to do with your telephone communications what companies such as Yahoo have done with e-mail. Google Voice, the new version of the GrandCentral technology Google acquired in July 2007, has...

More often than not, when discussing employment opportunities in today's troubled economic times, the focus is primarily on the rising unemployment rates - forecast to hit 8 percent in Wisconsin later this year - and declines in job openings across the board. For IT, however,...

While many national business conferences are being scaled back or canceled as a result of economic conditions, the HIMSS 2009 conference for health IT professionals and vendors located in Chicago reports that total conference registration parallels the record-breaking registration figures during this same time...

While on a R&R trip I had the opportunity to attend Saturday's third round of CA Championship and watch as Tiger Woods played an awesome round after falling behind after a less usual Wood's performance in rounds one and two. Woods has just resumed golfing...

President Barack Obama is looking for some sector of the economy to lead the nation out of recession, and he's putting down a $730 million dollar bet Monday on small businesses. Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will announce a plan Monday to make it easier...

President Obama's stimulus package addresses very diverse segments of the economy, including health care, education, research, and infrastructure. However, all of these components have one thing in common: the reliance on information technology as the engine powering these stimulus initiatives. A key initiative in the stimulus...

IBM researchers are testing a 3-D version of an electronic patient record, complete with avatar, at Thy-Mors Hospital in northern Denmark. Scientists at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, in collaboration with experts from IBM Denmark, created the software, which provides a medical information hub....

As economic forecasts predict an ever-lengthening recession, CIOs will continue to be called upon to trim costs and create better operational efficiencies. We spoke with Frank Casale, CEO and chairman of the Outsourcing Institute, and Allen Weinberg, principal and North American leader of McKinsey & Company’s...