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When health information technology tools support medical diagnostic teams, they can improve diagnoses, says the Institute of Medicine. Yet there have been "few demonstrations that health IT actually improves diagnosis in clinical practice." Diagnostic errors can be reduced or averted by the use of health information...

Today’s “Factories of the Future” are shifting to Time-Based Thinking Based on Powerful Strategies Developed at the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Even if you have a small family-owned business or your company is a division of a large multi-national...

From faculty recruitment to the new UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is investing in the future of UW–Madison. WARF, the nonprofit foundation that patents and commercializes campus inventions, has granted the university $58.5 million for the 2015-16 academic year. “WARF exists to...

Android 6.0 will come with some treats for developers. Google just unloaded a slew of announcements Tuesday in San Francisco, at an event covering new hardware products, new software features, and some new capabilites of interest to its enormous community of Android app developers....

Many organizations still lack a clear strategy, an effective data governance model and effective budgeting models, a recent Deloitte study indicated. Health system spending on analytics aligns with reported success in analytics, and respondents agree that analytics investment is essential for value-based care (VBC), according to...

Was the US Central Bank right to delay a planned rise in interest rates? The increase was anticipated to beat down inflation before it got out of hand. Instead, Chairwoman Yellen and her team “wimped out.” Let’s provide some context first. Following the banking crisis...

For the past two decades, the web has been optimized for sight and touch. This is about to change in a big way. Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and the Amazon Echo are ushering in an era of voice-controlled devices and services. Soon, Facebook M will...

Hire smartly and automate what you can. Scaling any business takes time, money, and often, a lot more effort than you think. Scaling a service-based business in particular is tricky—we've seen many try to scale and then crash as they outpace their own growth. So how can...