Author: WTN News

Businesses face several legal challenges today, but the most daunting might be electronic discovery requests. Even though they have been place for more than a year, companies are paying a heavy price for their failure to prepare for and comply with the e-component of the...

The final piece in financing is in place for an initiative designed to improve information technology in Wisconsin's rural hospitals. Forward Community Investments made the $400,000 loan to the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative Information Technology Network as part of a $5 million project. ...

IBM's Jim Adams is blunt in mapping out the need for change in the U.S healthcare system, but he warns the status quo could still survive even with the benefits of healthcare information technology. Adams, executive director of the IBM Center for Healthcare Management, talked...

The National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, an arm of the National Institutes of Health, has extended funding for the Medical College of Wisconsin's biomedical center. The Medical College facility will receive $5.6 million over the next five years to continue its work to...

Medical imaging equipment is not only producing tangible operational benefits, it is generating massive amounts of data that is taxing storage and could someday result in system failure. Fred Terry, director of information systems for Mercy Health System in Janesville, expects picture archiving to add...

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has entered into licensing agreements involving new flu technology and human embryonic stem cell technology. WARF has licensed vaccine technology to FluGen, a local start-up founded by UW-Madison professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and it has licensed stem cell technology to the...

Personal health records have their champions and critics alike, and they were not bashful about sharing their views on PMRs during WTN's 2008 Digital Healthcare Conference. Growing consumer interest in PMRs will require technology companies to develop better tools, and Microsoft and Google are already...

The 2008 Digital Healthcare Conference kicked off with a presentation on personal health records, but it's the management of data arising from the implementation of electronic medical records and other healthcare IT that has Wisconsin CIOs looking for answers. The conference continues on Thursday with...

GWC Technologies of Madison has chosen Biotron Healthcare of Mumbai, India as its exclusive distributor of products in India. The Madison company, which exports products to more than a dozen nations, manufactures label-free arrays used for life-science applications such as proteomics analysis, drug discovery research,...

If commercial or residential buildings lack broadband connectivity, they might start seeing a lack of tenants, observes columnist James Carlini. That's why broadband connectivity is a key economic driver, he asserts in this edition of Carlini's Comments. Just ask the leaders of those rare municipalities...