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You’ve got HIT questions? New startup has crowdsourced answers (video)

You’ve got HIT questions? New startup has crowdsourced answers (video)

April 23, 2013 5:02 pm by | 0 Comments

A group of former employees from electronic medical record vendor Epic have launched a website to address the myriad of questions that pop up in health IT. Its website,BreadcrumbsQA, crowdsources ... Read more
Wisconsin Investment Partners named region’s most active angel investing group

Wisconsin Investment Partners named region’s most active angel investing group

April 22, 2013 2:11 pm by | 0 Comments

Wisconsin Investment Partners, a Madison-based angel investing group, has been named by the Halo Report as the most active angel investing group in the Great Lakes region.Wisconsin Investment Partners, known ... Read more
Madison aiming to be epicenter for HIT

Madison aiming to be epicenter for HIT

April 7, 2013 7:30 am by | 0 Comments

Madison's new cluster of health care technology companies is coming into its own.With at least five local businesses started by former Epic Systems Corp. employees that have created about 400 ... Read more
Physicians Plus, Group Health, Unity lose money in 2012

Physicians Plus, Group Health, Unity lose money in 2012

April 3, 2013 1:18 am by | 0 Comments

Physicians Plus lost $30.3 million last year after losing $10.5 million the year before, according to a financial statement the health insurance company filed this week.Group Health Cooperative of South ... Read more
New device uses sensors to evaluate and treat patients who have trouble swallowing

New device uses sensors to evaluate and treat patients who have trouble swallowing

March 4, 2013 10:00 am by | 0 Comments

A Wisconsin startup focused on retraining weakened mouth muscles that cause people to have difficulty swallowing has launched its first device and raised a $1 million series A as it ... Read more
Startup with device for early sepsis detection hopes for new CEO and 2014 market launch

Startup with device for early sepsis detection hopes for new CEO and 2014 market launch

November 5, 2012 8:22 am by | 0 Comments

Isomark, a Wisconsin, Madison-based medical device company, was founded back in 2005 with a goal to commercialize a technology developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that could detect blood infections ... Read more
Some providers have found implementing EHR “traumatizing” (infographic)

Some providers have found implementing EHR “traumatizing” (infographic)

September 20, 2012 2:55 pm by | 2 Comments

The road for many providers implementing electronic health records has not been an easy one. But an infographic from health IT resource group HealthPOINT at Dakota State University revealed that ... Read more
Device startup aims to reduce blood loss, procedure times in liver resection for cancer patients

Device startup aims to reduce blood loss, procedure times in liver resection for cancer patients

August 27, 2012 3:13 pm by | 0 Comments

Managing blood loss is one of the biggest challenges in liver resection procedures that involve cutting out diseased tissue in liver cancer patients.The resections can sometimes require blood transfusions of ... Read more
Wisconsin orthopedics startup seeks $5 million

Wisconsin orthopedics startup seeks $5 million

May 27, 2011 12:38 pm by | 0 Comments

A Wisconsin startup is hoping that its disruptive technology will alter the landscape of osteoarthritis treatment forever.Currently, osteoarthritis, especially in the knee, is often treated with hyaluronic acid-based injectable viscosupplements ... Read more
Ultrasound software firm Echometrix to raise $1 million

Ultrasound software firm Echometrix to raise $1 million

January 12, 2011 5:36 pm by | 0 Comments

Madison-based Echometrix expects to offer EchoSoft, software to improve ultrasound diagnosis and management of tendon and ligament injuries, by year's end, said CEO Sam Adams. Last week, the four-year-old startup ... Read more
Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia drugmaker Mithridion to explore new treatments

Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia drugmaker Mithridion to explore new treatments

January 12, 2011 2:43 am by | 0 Comments

Mithridion treatments focus on Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. Now it might consider treating progressive supranuclear palsy or a type of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Mithridion, based in Madison, Wisconsin, said ... Read more
Cancer treatment company NeuWave raises $5.5 million

Cancer treatment company NeuWave raises $5.5 million

December 30, 2010 2:47 pm by | 0 Comments

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in late October granted a 510(k) marketing clearance for NeuWave's Certus 140TM 2.45 GHz Ablation System. The device attacks tumors with microwave energy in ... Read more
Life science tools company Semba raises nearly $1 million

Life science tools company Semba raises nearly $1 million

December 29, 2010 2:24 pm by | 0 Comments

The medical device company from Madison, Wisconsin, said in June it expected to make $1 million this year, and would raise $750,000 to put toward future growth. The company raised ... Read more
SEC charges duo with insider trading of medical companies’ stocks

SEC charges duo with insider trading of medical companies’ stocks

December 13, 2010 3:07 pm by | 0 Comments

The Securities & Exchange Commission charges Brett Cohen and David Meyers in an alleged insider trading scheme involving shares of Exact Sciences Corp. and Sequenom Inc. that netted more than ... Read more
Quincy Bioscience gets money to boost memory loss supplement

Quincy Bioscience gets money to boost memory loss supplement

August 25, 2010 5:17 pm by | 0 Comments

Madison, Wisconsin, biotechnology company Quincy Bioscience has received an undisclosed "capital infusion" from DaneVest Tech Fund I, an investment group in its hometown. Quincy will used the money to support ... Read more