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Last Update: Tue Oct 16 09:31:14 2007

+ Niceware Healthcare partners with national provider network + Niceware Healthcare of Milwaukee has announced a partnership through which it can sell its bar-code and radio frequency identification [...] systems. The partnership was established with the Identification Systems Group, an identification and card-personalization business.

+ Yer Biotech Blues: Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors + Most U.S. companies seem to have focused their growth efforts on China and India, but columnist Michael Rosen wants to remind them [...] people that Brazil -- like India and China -- is a fast-growing, highly populated country that is ripe for foreign investment.

+ Georgia healthcare system to install GE's radio frequency ID + Emory Healthcare in Atlanta will install a radio frequency identification product from GE Healthcare to track medical equipment and ...

+ Software company enters health space with RFID solutions on hold + Smart labeling technology might not get as much attention as electronic medical records, but it is one of the answers to reducing [...] business unit to more widely bring bar code, and eventually radio frequency identification technology, to the healthcare settings.

+ Study affirms information technology-productivity link + The integration of information technology into virtually all aspects of the economy is responsible for much of America's economic [...] How big? Three to five times that of other investments, according to the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

+ Inside Wisconsin: Tapping hidden assets: Wisconsin researchers who can create jobs + Even though the State of Wisconsin supports the UW System, most of the “technology transfer” in Wisconsin gets done without direct [...] payoff the state would receive if it decided to invest more in research, freeing up more lab time for professors outside of Madison.

+ Carlini's Comments: Getting beyond the vortex of corporate mediocrity + “You don't get Superman by paying Jimmy Olson wages,” observes columnist James Carlini, which means that downsizing and other [...] is that more employees are overworked, underappreciated, and opting for immediate resignations rather than two-week's notice.

+ Merge Healthcare unveils diagnostic mammography tool + Merge Healthcare has introduced a new diagnostic product for mammography that promises to improve workstation efficiency and clinical ...

+ MedTech Futures: Healthcare of business: Universal coverage plan includes new business taxes + How much will universal health insurance cost in Illinois? About $2.1 billion a year, and under a new plan by Gov. Rod Blagojevich, [...] receipts” tax. In this edition of MedTech Futures, Dr. Ogan Gurel suggests taxing businesses according to their healthcare burdens.

+ Fusion 2007: IT threats make risk management paramount + Risk management, risk management, risk management. It's become the matra of IT, but not for trivial reasons, according to key [...] from all directions, and with technology becoming more pervasive and complex, technologists are in a constant state of risk alert.

+ Tech upstart VoVision could disrupt the voice-recognition market + Has a new Madison business truly found a disruptive new technology for the voice-recognition market? The proprietors believe so, and [...] could save law firms, healthcare facilities, and insurance companies countless hours of transcribing dictations and voice mails.

+ Johnson Controls deals for asset-tracking software + As part of an agreement with PanGo Networks, Johnson Controls has acquired asset-tracking technology enabled by radio frequency [...] by Johnson Controls to locate and track a variety of medical equipment for the purposes of improving workflow and reducing costs.

+ Tech/Know: Viewing the Internet as a free-for-all can be costly + Until there is an effective antidote to spam, and as long as the Internet remains inexpensive to use and difficult to regulate, e-mail [...] Internet marketers must exercise caution, and they must pay special attention to the topics of disclosure, privacy, and ownership.

+ Gala Biotech among companies sold for $3.3 billion + Cardinal Health, a Dublin, Ohio-based provider of products for the healthcare industry, has sold a group of companies, including [...] said the sale won't immediately impact the company's workforce or core business, but he hopes it leads to a production expansion.

+ Venture Investors to open Michigan office + Madison-based Venture Investors is one of three venture capital firms nationwide to receive money from a Michigan capital fund. The ...