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Follow this 30-day program and you will forever look at disruption as the gateway to innovation. Disruption is one of the least well understood aspects of innovation and life in general. We see it as something that comes from the outside, an unwelcome visitor that steps...

Blind spots could be a thing of the past, if only replacing car mirrors with the latest technology were legal. Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BMW showed off a prototype vehicle where the rearview and side mirrors were replaced by...

Wisconsin has always been in the driver’s seat when it comes to innovation around machines that move on roads, waterways and farm fields. Wisconsin “firsts” include the steam-powered automobile (1871), the automobile race (1878), the motorcycle (1880s), the gasoline-powered automobile (1889), the steel automobile frame (1899);...

QPID uses natural language processing and machine learning to turn data from electronic health records into actionable information. Partners HealthCare announced on Monday that it has contracted with QPID Health, whose analytics tools will be integrated with Partners’ Epic-based eCare EHR and other legacy systems to...

I opened the birthday card to find a silver metal cutout of the word FABULOUS glued to a background of shiny fuchsia ribbons. The message was wonderful to receive, for sure. Looking at the card days after my birthday, I realize the word FABULOUS is...

In 2015, the virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) industry was widely heralded as the next tectonic shift in computing. But it’s also an industry that investors are cautious to enter while everyone’s cards are still face down. It may take years before mass...

By leveraging the historical data included in the records, healthcare providers can target patients, populations more than ever. Advancements in genomic research have given medical professionals the ability to create highly detailed physiological profiles of individuals as well as a baseline for predicting the impact of...