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Before rushing to market with an internally developed technology that works well within their environments, healthcare providers and other organizations are well advised to consider how it will play in Peoria. There are examples, including Marshfield Clinic's electronic medical record, where internally developed IP has...

While some bemoan any hype surrounding human embryonic stem cell research, the truth is that we're fast approaching the day when stem cells will be used in experimental threrapies of human diseases, notes columnist Steve Clark. In this edition of Biotech Takes, Clark updates Wisconsinites...

To keep pace with large-scale manufacturing needs, Cambridge Major will build a new 120,000-square-foot plant next to its Germantown headquarters. The facility, which is scheduled for completion in August of 2009, will contain several manufacturing suites that are capable of making multi-ton quantities of the...

Three Wisconsin telecommunications providers have joined forces to form a video company to provide IPTV services to rural areas of Wisconsin and beyond. The companies - Midwest Telnet, Tri-County Telcom, and Wisconsin Indepdendent Network - have formed Midwest Video Solutions to provide the facilities needed...

Declines in IT confidence among mid-sized businesses were uncovered in the most recent IT Monitor produced by CDW Corp. Mid-sized companies joined their small-business counterparts in expressing growing pessimism due to the slowing economy, but the gloom still has not spread to corporate America and...

In trademark law, the subjective intent to deceive is no longer the standard for fraud, according to attorney Melinda Giftos. Fraud now occurs when an applicant makes a false material representation that he knows, or should have known, was false. That's why the need for...

There is no need to panic about America's declining investment, as a percentage of global spending, in innovation, according to columnist Tom Koulopoulos. In this edition of the Innovation Zone, Koulopoulos cites a much deeper set of values that are emerging around innovation, and he...

Silatronix, a Madison-based start-up company, will receive $500,000 and could secure as much as $1 million in venture capital from Venture Investors, LLC, according to a published report. The company, led by a group of scientists and spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is...

The future of biofuels in the United States, particularly corn-based ethanol, is being threatened by perceptions and politics rather than elevated by science and sound energy policy, asserts columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he says growing support for ending government ethanol...

If it's true that high-performing companies are more analytical than low-performing ones, the healthcare industry is poised for a golden era if organizations choose to capture their data. Many healthcare CIOs believe the large amounts of data being generated by recently deployed information technology can...