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Former Wisconsin Governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson has agreed to advise BidRX.com, a Wisconsin-based online company that seeks to make pharmacies and pharma companies bid for your prescription drug business. The Oshkosh-based website was established to create a more...

Comic Wonder, a Website dedicated to telling and listening to jokes, has added Lauren Flanagan, general partner of the Phenomenelle Angels Fund, and Pehr Anderson, former director of Silicon Pastures, to its board of directors. Earlier this month, the company announced that it has raised...

The Madison-based Third Wave Technologies has reported a wider fourth quarter loss even though sales of its clinical products increased 26 percent. Third Wave, a Madison-based maker of molecular diagnostic products, said its quarterly loss increased to $7.94 million, or 18 cents a share, in...

Is there anything wrong with a little business acumen in academia? Not according to columnist Tom Still, who cites several prominent examples of successful business-academia pairings, including former Madison area CEO Erroll Davis, Jr., who now runs the University System of Georgia. In this edition...

Respondents to the 19th annual HIMSS Leadership Survey identified the potential for additional Medicare reimbursement cuts, managed care fee reductions, and patient satisfaction as the top business issues shaping 2008 technology investment decisions. Most believe that reductions in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement would directly affect...

Famed University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher James Thomson has accepted the position of director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute for Research. The new facility will house the twin Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, the private Morgridge Institute for Research and the public Wisconsin...

Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says politics will matter in healthcare and healthcare information technology, especially with the trendlines favoring Democrats in 2008. Frist, a Republican from Tennessee who was the first physician to serve in the U.S. Senate in more than 60 years,...

A worldwide survey conducted by Gartner shows something CIOs already know - that their CEOs increasingly expect them to make a real difference in the enterprise. In this case, it means they must replace “generic IT” with solutions linked to business strategy. ...

In announcing its financial results for the third quarter and nine-month periods that ended Sept. 30, 2007, the financially troubled Merge Healthcare said it would focus on cash preservation and the infusion of capital in the months ahead. ...