Health Technology

The all-digital Saint Clare's Hospital has provided caregivers with real-time access to patient information, and its information technology officer was able to design its technological profile from the ground up. Before St. Clare's treated its first patient, Tanya Townsend and a multi-disciplinary team were laying...

There has been much talk over the past couple of years about the risks and threats posed by the aging workforce in the U.S. and parts of Europe, notes Next Generation columnist Tony DiRomualdo. In this edition of Next Generation, he breaks down two new...

Neural progenitor cells derived from human fetal stem cells have been found to protect the vision of animals with degenerative eye diseases, similar to the kinds that afflict humans, according to a new study co-authored by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers David Gamm and Clive Svendsen....

The National Cancer Institute has awarded the Medical College of Wisconsin a $1.4 million renewal grant for continued development of medical imaging products used in the fight against cancer. Medical College professor Kathleen Schmainda, the principal investigator, said patients with brain tumors have responded well...

The information technology talent pool is shallower than it used to be, and that's creating all kinds of challenges for companies in Wisconsin and beyond. In this first part of our series on IT workforce development, WTN looks at some unfavorable demographics that practically compel...

TomoTherapy may have its sales eye on the Orient, but the company still is a player in the European medical device and imaging market. This week, a French hospital named for Madame Curie announced that it has installed the TomoTherapy Hi-Art system, and two more...

Yer Biotech Blues columnist Mike Rosen offers greetings from New Delhi, India, where he is traveling as part of the Illinois trade mission to India. The implications of this trade mission, while clearly focused on Illinois, could affect the entire Midwest as a region that...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison would like to see more health research follow a continuum from clinical investigation to actual practice, so it has established a new research entity called the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. The institute, which will partner with the Marshfield Clinic...

The integration of information technology into virtually all aspects of the economy is responsible for much of America's economic growth, and a new study confirms what many economists have been saying for years - that computers provide a big boost to productivity. How big? Three...

A Madison medical technology business has received a $100,000 federal grant to produce a series of new medical products with better adhesive properties than anything now on the market. Nerites Corp. is developing tissue repair products and advanced coatings for implanted medical devices that are...