The state of Wisconsin, which would like to establish Regional Health Information Organizations to accommodate the eventual sharing of medical information in electronic formats, has awarded a $110,000 contract to one such entity, the Wisconsin Health Information Exchange....
Smaller hospitals, including several in Wisconsin, look to the hosted model to affordably provide integrated data services, but industry experts warn there is more to successful data integration than the IT application. ...
Janesville's NorthStar Nuclear Medicine wins the exclusive rights to a unique technology developed by the Department of Energy that can dispose of excess nuclear fuel and fight cancer at the same time....
Three Wisconsin companies were ranked in the top 75 of Computer World's 100 Best places to work in the information technology field, and each "Best Workplace" offers something for state businesses that want to do a better job attracting IT workers. ...
The scientific community is taking the first tentative steps to address America's quiet crisis, the lack of young people entering the STEM disciplines. Organizers of a Discovery World exhibit set to open in Miwaukee this fall hope a little "wow" factor will turn kids on...
Bill Hendee, dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin graduate school since 1995, will retire at the end of this month to devote more time to a scientific journal he edits, and to a national initiative to teach doctors more about the underlying science of...
With the announcement of a $1 million grant, researchers outside of UW-Madison will be encouraged to develop their own technology ideas. Some at schools like UW-Milwaukee, UW-La Crosse, and UW-Oshkosh already have....
During a conference on Games, Learning, and Society, UW-Madison professors said their fellow educators have been slow to get into the game. What they don't know is that electronic games can be a valuable educational tool....
At the urging of state IT employees, the schedule for the consolidation of computer servers has been adjusted, but will the state still capture promised savings?...
When all the smoke clears in the 2006 gubernatorial campaign, we may look back at mid-June as the time when it began in earnest, and stem cell research was the reason....