NeuWave Medical, a Madison-based medical device company, has landed $4.5 million in venture capital from Venture Investors and individual investors, and lured executive Laura King away from GE Healthcare. The early-stage company has developed a needle like probe to deliver microwave power and destroy tumors,...
Responding to a lack of oversight that has resulted in tens of millions of dollars in losses for the state, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch has announced the selection of State Rep. Phil Montgomery to chair the Joint Committee on Information Policy and Technology. Montgomery had...
The state of Wisconsin has launched Voter Public Access, a new program to provide online assistance to voters, in advance of the Feb. 19 presidential primary. According to the state's Government Accountability Board, Voter Public Access will provide voters with a new means of obtaining...
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Intel Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. The lawsuit claims that Intel's widely used Core 2 Duo processor...
With the reality that a smart drive is useless if you can't find what you're looking for, DoxNow, a Wausau-based technology company, has launched an advanced document management software product of the same name. The product integrates with the host computer's software and uses 128-bit...
The value of unified communications in healthcare settings is firmly established, especially because many medical errors are traced to communication problems, according to Dr. Daniel Sands, director of IBSG Healthcare and Cisco’s director of medical informatics. In this WTN guest column, Sands contends that recouping...
What do cancer and technology consolidation have in common? They both have challenged Jim Herzfeld in recent years, and they have given him and his employer, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a new perspective on things. Herzfeld, the newspaper's vice president and CIO, has successfully made...
Incentive stock options can be wonderful assets, both for the company trying to provide attractive incentives to its employees and to the employees who have options that go up in value as they help the company succeed, according to columnist Sverre Roang. In this WTN...
In a synergistic melding of social networking companies, the Dallas-based Cornerworld has acquried Sway, Inc. of Madison for $30 million. The deal marries companies that operate in the Web 2.0 space - Cornerworld for artists and entertainers and Sway for marketing campaigns....
As healthcare organizations move to deploy electronic medical records, they encounter the need for clear standards to provide guidance on who can access patient information, how they secure permission to access it, and what they can do with the information, according to Dr. Barry Chaiken....