Author: WTN News

The value of unified communications in healthcare settings is firmly established, especially because many medical errors are traced to communication problems, according to Dr. Daniel Sands, director of IBSG Healthcare and Cisco’s director of medical informatics. In this WTN guest column, Sands contends that recouping...

With the reality that a smart drive is useless if you can't find what you're looking for, DoxNow, a Wausau-based technology company, has launched an advanced document management software product of the same name. The product integrates with the host computer's software and uses 128-bit...

Althea Technologies has been chosen by Madison's Quintessence Biosciences to produce its lead protein oncology drug for forthcoming clinical trials. The drug candidate, QBI-139, has proven to be effective in fighting cancer in various solid tumors and soon may be the subject of clinical trials. ...

As healthcare organizations move to deploy electronic medical records, they encounter the need for clear standards to provide guidance on who can access patient information, how they secure permission to access it, and what they can do with the information, according to Dr. Barry Chaiken....

In a synergistic melding of social networking companies, the Dallas-based Cornerworld has acquried Sway, Inc. of Madison for $30 million. The deal marries companies that operate in the Web 2.0 space - Cornerworld for artists and entertainers and Sway for marketing campaigns....

Incentive stock options can be wonderful assets, both for the company trying to provide attractive incentives to its employees and to the employees who have options that go up in value as they help the company succeed, according to columnist Sverre Roang. In this WTN...

What's an investor to do when assessing the prospects of a promising new biotechnology? In this WTN guest column, former University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and medical researcher Steve Clark provides the right question to ask, and it has more to do with assessing risk than...

The information technology department isn't dead, but it needs to grow in a different direction, according to Peter Coffee, director of platform research for Salesforce.com, which provides customer relationship management (CRM) and other application services over the Web. In a wide-ranging Visions interview with WTN,...