If your company has ever experienced the panic and the misery of a security breach, you know that a growing body of data protection laws demand prompt public disclosure. For the fortunate many that have not been through this crisis drill, Guest Columnist David Brown...
The Seattle-based Avanade, Inc., citing an emerging customer base in Milwaukee, has opened an office in the Milwaukee Center on Kilbourn Avenue. The company had been serving metropolitan Milwaukee clients through its Chicago office....
Comparing the close of a business to divorce, attorney Joe Boucher says there are a million details to attend to. In this 18th and final edition of Early-Stage, Boucher explains that selling a business can be complicated and, like divorce, wise counsel will be needed. ...
Human resources departments are important, but enough already with the “HR speak,” opines workplace columnist Melanie Holmes. In this edition of Contemporary Working, she notes that effective communication is important in the office, and sometimes HR and the rest of the business are separated by...
With more healthcare costs shifting to employees, healthcare organizations are looking for ways to help their patients better understand their bills. It is the premise behind Health Payment Systems, a new Milwaukee-area company that has announced a contract with Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare. ...
Technology continues to reshape our world, but not without offering tough choices to policy makers, according to columnist Tom Still. In this edition of Inside Wisconsin, he addresses recent privacy snafus involving Social Security numbers, the proposed e-scrap law, the plight of the Wisconsin Virtual...
GE Healthcare's decision to push new compact ultrasound products is paying dividends. Three enhanced medical imaging products are primarily responsible for the generation of $175 million in revenue for ultrasound thus far in 2007, a robust 65 percent increase over the same period of 2006. ...
In the 1980s, the great healthcare saviors were managed care and managed competition. In the 1990s, disease management was the flavor of the decade. In the new millennium, healthcare information technology has come into vogue, but the nation's medical cost crisis continues, notes guest...
Despite an eighth consecutive quarter of clinical revenue growth, Third Wave Technologies reported a wider quarterly loss based on high costs for clinical trials and ongoing patent litigation costs. One hopeful sign continues to be a growing customer base, which now includes more than 200...
Not many of us think about technology as being egalitarian, but WTN columnist Tom Koulopoulos does. In this edition of the Innovation Zone, and just in time to start thinking about holiday philanthropy, he touts Nicholas Negroponte's “One Laptop per Child” initiative because he believes...