Health Technology

The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium was created to improve Wisconsin's ability to attract and retain research and development grants, especially for sensitive research. It has been funded for less than a year but already has three projects in the works as it seeks to match...

Rural hospitals in Wisconsin and elsewhere are less likely to have adopted healthcare information technology like electronic medical records, but gradual progress is being made both in terms of IT deployment and patient data exchange. With the help of grant funding, Wisconsin's rural hospitals are...

Niceware Healthcare of Milwaukee has announced a partnership through which it can sell its bar-code and radio frequency identification (RFID) software to 45 regional market leaders in identification systems. The partnership was established with the Identification Systems Group, an identification and card-personalization business....

Columnist Michael Rosen does some Bio-MidAmerican Investor Conference follow up and looks at a recent report ranking the climate for start-up businesses in 178 countries. In this edition of Yer Biotech Blues, he notes that the United States and other major developed nations rank lower...

Global companies are discovering Wisconsin's many business benefits, as Microsoft's recent acquisition of Jellyfish.com clearly demonstrates, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. Microsoft, however, is only the latest corporate giant to "Discover Wisconsin" and its business merits, which speaks volumes about Wisconsin's ability...

Cellectar, which designs and develops products to detect, treat, and monitor human cancers, has named Ernest Allen as director of clinical operations and Lisa Ann Trembath as manager of medical affairs. The appointments come as Cellectar moves its lead drug candidate toward clinical trials....

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed amendments with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to make technical changes to the claims of its three human embryonic stem cell patents. WARF said the technical language submitted to PTO examiners more clearly differentiates the University of...

TomoTherapy executives prefer investors to take the long view of their financial performance, but the company's projected third quarter performance is nothing to scoff at. The Madison based medical device manufacturer has revised its third quarter projections, which indicate a 61 percent increase in anticipated...