Author: WTN News

Appleton, Wis. - Fabrication Laboratories, or Fab Labs, are an exercise in global technology sharing spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Wisconsin technical college is putting an entrepreneurial spin on them. Dozens of inventors are using the lab and taking advantage...

Madison, Wis. — Nerites, a developer of medical technology, has added James C. Powell to its board of directors. Powell retired in 2003 from SurModics, a public company that developed similar products, where he was president and chief operating officer....

The analytics division of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released figures on the budgets and technology adoption of U.S. hospitals, showing slightly increasing advancement of electronic medical record (EMR) capabilities and other technology trends....

Sometimes an event can be revealing; a rude awakening to a reality that replaces a more innocent, but imaginary, world. Google's recent attempt to acquire Yahoo's search engine and search advertising business is such an event...

Through the use of software that provides decision support for nurses, Aurora Health Care is partnering with UWM and Cerner Corp. to accelerate evidence-based nursing. The objective is not only to improve health outcomes by reducing variation in nursing care, but make the nursing profession...

Product and company acquisitions at premium prices by product- and technology-hungry Big Pharma and Big Device (and even Big Biotech) are fueling the financial coffers of both smaller companies, investors and VCs....

Milwaukee, Wis. — GE Healthcare announced Thursday the acquisition of Vital Signs, a New Jersy-based provider of single-use medical products, for $74.50 per share. The price values the deal at $860 million and is a 28-percent premium over the $58 close of Vital Signs on...