Two of health IT’s most outspoken figures, athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush and Turntable Health CEO Dr. Zubin Damania, are trying to spark a physician revolt against bad EHR design. Monday, health IT vendor athenahealth, with the help of Damania’s rapping alter-ego, ZDoggMD, launched “Let Doctors Be...
Ask FBI special agent Byron Franz how to fight job loss and lack of competitiveness, and he's got an immediate answer: improve cybersecurity. Wisconsin has a rich landscape of targets for cyber criminals, including defense contractors, makers of high-tech industrial equipment and others, said Franz, who...
Redox Inc., a Madison health care software development tool-maker, has raised $3.5 million in a funding round led by .406 Ventures LLC, a Boston venture capital firm....
IBM has successfully deployed 130,000 iOS and Mac devices within the company, supported by 24 help desk staff members, an IBM executive said. According to a JAMF Software blog post, Fletcher Previn, vice president of Workplace-as-a-Service at IBM spoke at a JAMF user conference this...
As aficionados of all things technology related, most IT professionals jumped on the smartphone bandwagon very early. In recent years, the iPhone has become one of the more popular smartphones in IT shops. Yet, until recently, there was a dearth of iPhone apps specifically geared toward...
Until recently, the only activity tracking I was really doing was through the Health app on my iPhone. I write about wearables from time to time, and have dabbled in the tracking universe, but never felt the need to commit to any one device for...
Rock Health has released a report on consumer use of digital health that offers a few surprises. The survey of 4,000 consumers shows that while most people limit themselves to searching for health information online for things like prescription medication, symptoms and their potential causes,...
There’s a lot yet to be determined in the lawsuit between the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and Apple. WARF, which oversees and protects patents on University of Wisconsin inventions, sued the tech giant in February 2014, claiming Apple used a piece of microprocessing technology invented...
Starting and building a business is filled with uncertainty. Rather than try to resolve it, accept it and do this. Starting a business is often one of the hardest decisions anyone can make. Very rarely is the path to success lined with yellow bricks or...
This shadowy exchange in June 2012 was remarkable for two reasons: The bag contained $350,000 in cash, proceeds from an illegal Internet gambling ring; and the woman who took it was a New York real estate developer and prominent gay rights activist who has donated...