Health Technology

With apologies to filmmaker Michael Moore, Wisconsin is no "Sicko" when it comes to quality healthcare, but there is always room for improvement, according to Inside Wisconsin columnist Tom Still. One case in point is a new and improved data-management and claims-processing system for Medicaid....

For several years, researchers have been working to develop a wide range of potential medical applications for RNA interference, which acts as a genetic "silencing switch." Until a new delivery platform was developed by Mirus Bio Corp., a Madison biotechnology company, there has been no...

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has named Colin Scanes as its vice chancellor of research and economic development. Scanes will have the task of advancing university research and maximizing its job-creating potential. ...

When it comes to venture capital, higher interest rates aren't necessarily a death sentence, according to columnist Ogan Gurel. In this edition of Med Tech Futures, he contends that higher rates tend to point investors toward higher potential return, higher-risk investments. That means the life...