Tommy Thompson joins Picis board of directors

Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson has been elected to the board of directors of Picis, a provider of information systems for high-acuity care areas of a hospital, such as the ER, the operating room and the intensive care unit. ...

The Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has awarded the Biomedical Engineering department at UW-Madison a five-year, $580,000 annual grant for pursuing translational research. The grant will assist with transfer of early-stage technology for commercial applications in the private sector. ...

Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation, Inc., has reached an agreement to buy Datasweep, Inc., a provider of manufacturing production management software solutions. The acquisition is designed to bring about a consolidated manufacturing management platform for Rockwell....

CIOs with hybrid titles have been able to distinguish between utility IT and strategic IT and sell the difference in their organizations. The evidence suggests that managing complex technology systems can be good preparation for managing complex lines of business operations....

Stem cell research, which is being pioneered in Wisconsin, may one day offer a cure for diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and juvenile diabetes. But these cures will continue to elude us if partisan political ideology is allowed to get in the way of the...

It’s becoming clear that we’re about to encounter a major inflection point in information technology, says Columnist Chris Shipley. With less than three months to go, DEMO 2006 promises to provide a revealing glimpse into the not-so-distant future....

Firstlogic, Inc., a global provider of enterprise information quality solutions, and Pitney Bowes, Inc., a mail and document management solutions company based in Connecticut, have agreed not to extend their merger agreement when it expires November 15, concluding Pitney's planned acquisition of Firstlogic....

The LightSpeed VCT, GE Health Care's volume computed tomography (CT) scanner, is capable of capturing images of the human heart in as few as five beats. This a critical tool to help physicians improve the success rate of coronary CT imaging when compared with scan...