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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...

If you believe that those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it, be aware that this saying applies to software as well as history, according to columnist Kirk Knoernschild. In this edition of Aligning IT, he chronicles the software development mistakes...

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,...

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...

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...

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. ...

Should all community planners start changing their approach to municipal planning and status quo infrastructures? They better really understand the market first, warns columnist James Carlini, which means high-speed broadband connectivity should trump New Urbanism as their top priority....

As the chief information officer and vice president of information systems for Aurora Health Care, which has a presence in 90 eastern Wisconsin communities, Phil Loftus has a big job on his hands. Fortunately for Aurora, Loftus is accustomed to that, having developed one of...