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Aurora Health Care today announced the hiring of Preston Simons as the health care system's new Chief Information Officer. Simons, a veteran information technology executive, will lead Aurora's efforts using technology and innovative IT platforms and services to help it continue to deliver a high-quality,...

Let’s face it: If we knew precisely why stock markets surge up, down and sideways at the drop of a hat, we would all be a lot richer. Such is the inexact science of trying to make sense of why the stock of Exact Sciences, a...

The survey showed that as the implications of digitalization play out, it is becoming clear that hardcoded business and operational models will not suffice and that a more adaptable approach is required. Gartner analysts presented these findings during the sold-out Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, which is taking...

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his patent for the telephone to Western Union for $100,000. After careful consideration the company rejected Bell's offer. They replied that they could see no good reason why people would want to speak to each other through such...

From faculty recruitment to the new UW2020 WARF Discovery Initiative, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is investing in the future of UW–Madison. WARF, the nonprofit foundation that patents and commercializes campus inventions, has granted the university $58.5 million for the 2015-16 academic year. “WARF exists to...

Rates charged for medical care and procedures in Wisconsin are typically higher than elsewhere in the country, says Ross Bjella, co-founder and CEO of Alithias, Inc., a Milwaukee company whose software products analyze insurance claims data and promote health care value for employers, employees, health...

Legacy data centers have an efficiency problem, with multiple systems processing the same data several times. It's time to rethink that. IT departments are under amplified pressure to increase efficiency, which generally means changing the way that IT operates -- anything from small course corrections to...

Physicians are increasingly dissatisfied with their electronic health records. According to a recent survey conducted by the AMA and AmericanEHR Partners, just 34 percent of physicians said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their EHR in 2014, compared to 62 percent in 2010. While the...

The Hyperloop sounds like science fiction, Elon Musk’s pipe dream: leapfrog high speed rail and go right to packing us into capsules that fling us across the country in hours using what are, essentially, pneumatic tubes. It sounds crazy, when you think about it. It’s starting...