Wisconsin Technology Network

Start Me Up Healthcare Conference Aligns Healthcare CIOs, Entrepreneurs and Investors

Healthcare industry leaders, health information technology startups, and investors will converge at the premier “Start Me Up” Emerging Healthcare Technology Conference, June 10 at the Fluno Center for Executive Education in Madison, Wisconsin. This new event is part of the 11th annual Digital Healthcare Conference 2013, a gathering of national healthcare leaders being held June 10-12 at the Fluno Center for Executive Education at the University of Wisconsin.

 

Health care is on the brink of a more personalized, population-based, pervasive future

We are at the beginning of the beginning of a new age for health care. Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the practice of medicine, but Dr. David Levin, the Chief Medical Information Officer at the Cleveland Clinic, said this is still uncharted territory.

 

So You Want To Be A CIO? 4 Tips

I sat on a panel at Interop two weeks ago titled "So You Want To Be A CIO." It was a stimulating conversation with a highly engaged audience. I hope some of the following tips that came out of that conversation and my many years of experience in IT are helpful in planning your own management career.

 

Google's flirtation with being a hardware company is over

 

Inside Wisconsin: A trip to the mountaintop: Connecting the dots between health and well-being

It’s not easy being the Dalai Lama. Not only are you handpicked for the job at age two, with no real choice to become a firefighter, artist or cowboy, but you spend much of the rest of your life – at least, this reincarnation – answering the unanswerable. Such was the “what-is-the-meaning-of-life” tone of a Madison discussion with Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, at which six experts on human well-being sought to engage him on some of the mysteries of what it means to be a happy, healthy inhabitant of the planet.

 

How cloud computing will save Hollywood

 

CIO Executive Edge: Executives need digitally different thinking

Digital technology is on the mind of every executive from Sales and Marketing to IT and Operations. Executives concentrate many of these thoughts center around issues of responsibility, authority and budget rather than looking at what is possible, profitable and the other potentials of digital technology. It is a narrow mindset driven by the language of finance rather than the logic of value.

 

Sorry, IT still doesn't do attitude adjustments

 

Wisconsin Tech Industry employs 86,000 in 2012

The number of jobs in Wisconsin's technology industry grew 1 percent in 2012, just a little under the rate for the national techsector, according to a new report from the TechAmerica Foundation. The foundation, which is the nonprofit arm of U.S. industry group TechAmerica, said in its annual Cyberstates report that Wisconsin tech sector added 800 jobs in 2012, with the total workforce numbering 85,200 people.