Three executive technologists, including two from the University of Wisconsin System, are finalists to replace Anne Stunden as CIO of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CIO oversees the UW's Division of Information Technology and its 500 employees. ...
The regulatory pathways for drugs (medicine) are quite different than those for devices (surgery), but convergent medical technologies will require a closer interplay between the two, according to Dr. Ogan Gurel, author of MedTech Futures. Despite technical and cultural challenges, and even though certain medical...
On the subject of electronic health records, Janet Dillione, president of the health services division of Siemens Medical Solutions, provides the perspective of a nationally recognized technologist. Dillione, who was named one of the Top 25 women in healthcare by Modern Health magazine, recently took...
Gov. Jim Doyle has established a goal of capturing 10 percent of the stem cell market by 2015, and he has announced a $1 million funding commitment to help bring that about. The state will invest $1 million in Stemina Biomarker Discovery, a start-up company...
The electronic exchange of medical data can be advantageous to quality care, but if mistakenly handled, it can also impact privacy, according to technologists who took part in the annual Digital Healthcare Conference. With the ability to transmit patient data at the speed of light,...
Victory in the media theater of the talent war requires a total commitment, says columnist Tony DiRomualdo. That commitment includes the redesign of the entire work experience to better match the workplace preferences, learning styles, and performance needs of media-savvy workers. In this edition of...
Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch has made eight private-sector appointments to a bipartisan Task Force on Information Technology Failures. They will join eight legislators and in an effort to develop safeguards to prevent future IT mistakes. ...
ProCertus BioPharm, an oncology-based pharmaceutical company, has closed on a $2.3 million stock financing led by Venture Investors. ProCertus develops therapeutics to protect cancer patients against the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and will use the financing to begin clinical trials on cancer patients. ...
John Wade, a keynote speaker at the annual Digital Healthcare Conference in Madison, said the U.S. must speed adoption of healthcare information technology or healthcare costs will consume an unacceptable level of the nation's wealth. Wade, vice president and chief information officer for St. Luke's...
Merge Healthcare's first quarter 2007 financial results are in, and it's clear the company still has some repair work to do following a period of inaccurate financial reporting that led to the resignation of several executives. That's not to say there wasn't a silver lining...