Light sensor breakthrough could enhance digital cameras

TORONTO, ON New research by a team of University of Toronto scientists could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras. Researchers created a light sensor like a pixel in a digital camera that benefits from a phenomenon k...

Prescription-Free Digital Hearing Aid Just Released

Randy Wohlers, founder of the online hearing device store MyHearPod.com, offers a new 100% digital hearing aid that does not require a prescription. (PRWEB) June 2, 2009 -- For many people, hearing loss is a bothersome problem in certain situations, but not often enough...

GenomeQuest, Inc. Announces Digital Gene Expression Solution Within Its Sequence Data Management Platform

DigEx Solution offers completely interactive gene-level database to explore, understand, manage, and share next-generation sequencing DigEx runs. WESTBOROUGH, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- GenomeQuest, Inc., the leader in sequence data management, today announced that it has released a Digital...

Eklin Medical Systems to Showcase RapidStudy(TM) CDx Digital Radiography Systems at CVC East

Affordable, High Quality Digital Imaging Solution Now Available in Three Configurations SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Eklin Medical Systems, a leading supplier of digital radiography (DR), ultrasound, PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems) and practice management ...

Company to Provide Technology Platform for Digital Data Collection of Computerized Patient Records

Company Digital Data Collection sensor, software, and process platform intended to meet the needs of the Obama administration's Health Technology Plan. Aliso Viejo, California (PRWEB) March 29, 2009 -- Applied Technology Holdings, Inc. (ATH) revealed it's plans today to...

HOGGAN Ergo Announces Highly Anticipated Enhancements to the ergoFET Handheld Digital Force Gauge, Greatly Impacting the Field of Ergonomic Research and Application

The HOGGAN ergoFET handheld digital force gauge (measures various push-pull forces), used by ergonomic engineers worldwide, is now more versatile and accurate. Improvements have been made to the interface and the force capacities have been doubled to accurately measure up to 300 lbs. ...

MySignatureBook Certified Compliant With SAFE-BioPharma Digital Standard(TM)

LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- TriCipher, the experts in strong authentication, today announced that its MySignatureBook digital signing solution has been certified as compliant with the SAFE-BioPharma(TM) digital identity and signature standard. MySignatureBook 1.1 is an onlin...

Backe Digital-Brand-Marketing Blends Traditional Advertising with Expanded Digital Services

The move solidifies the company's core competencies in providing clients with a "best of both worlds" approach to marketing challenges. ARDMORE, Pa., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to client demands for online/offline integration, Backe Communications has officially rebranded itself as...

Women's Surgery Recorded for the First Time on '4K' Digital Cinema is Presented at the AAGL Congress

Hollywood's latest ultra-high definition has potential to revolutionize endoscopic surgery LAS VEGAS, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, there was a glimpse into the future of women's healthcare with the presentation of gynecologic surgery that was recorded for the first time using "4K" technolo...

Eklin Medical Surpasses 1,000th RapidStudy(R) Digital Radiography System Installation Featuring Canon DR Technology

Veterinary Surgical Associates and Veterinary Medical Specialists Install Milestone System; Braden River Equine Begins Next 1,000 Eklin DR Systems Installations SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital radiography (DR) has been g...

Parks Associates' Digital Health Analyst to Present Latest Research and Forecasts at ATA Show

Harry Wang to present Monday, April 7 at 1:45 PM DALLAS, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Harry Wang, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates, will present new digital health research at ATA 2008 at the Washington State Convention Center, Room 604, in Seattle on Monday, April 7. Harry will...

Siemens Unveils New Digital Mammography System for Optimized Screening

New MAMMOMAT(R) Novation S Introduces Innovations to Accelerate Workflow CHICAGO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Medical Solutions (http://www.usa.siemens.com/medical ) introduces the MAMMOMAT(R) Novation S, a new digital mammography system designed to optimize clinical workflow fo...

Rapid Quantification of Osteoarthritis With a Novel, Office-Based, High-Resolution Digital Imaging Device

CHEADLE, England, BURLINGTON, Massachusetts and RAMBOUILLET, France, November 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Optasia Medical Ltd., a maker of model-based vision software for musculoskeletal radiography, and D3A Medical Systems SAS, a developer of High Resolution Digital Radiology for osteoarticular imagin...

HC&B Healthcare Launches HC&B Digital

Names Steven Roy, Director of Interactive, to Head New Division AUSTIN, Texas, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Capping seven years of double-digit growth in marketing to customers across the entire healthcare continuum, HC&B Healthcare Communications, one of the nation's top 25 independent health...

Sony Bets Heavy on Wisconsin Digital Entertainment Presence

On July 29th, Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO ) will hold its annual meeting at which shareholders will be asked to vote to approve the purchase of its entire desktop software business including its Sound Forge, Vegas video editing and ACID music creation computer programs to a subsidiary of Sony ...

GE Medical Enables Digital Heart Hospital

Waukesha, Wis. - GE Medical Systems and University Community Health , (UCH) system, a not for profit community health network based in Tampa, Florida have announced an agreement to build one of the nations most advanced heart hospitals. GE Medical Systems will be the technology provider for UCH'...

Heart patients benefit from digital image network

Hartland, Wis. -- The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Childrens Hospital and Arnold Palmer Hospital are now utilizing VERICIS Cardiovascular Information System. VERCIS, developed by Milwaukee-based Camtronics Medical Systems , streamlines echo images and is designed to improve patient care...

Analog people in the digital revolution

Youve heard the drumbeat about IT project failure rates. Youve probably heard mention of all the usual suspects like the lack of sponsor support, poor requirements and scope definition, lack of business relevance or bad communication. What might not be so apparent in all of this hand wringing is th...

Analog people in the Digital Revolution, part II

In my previous column, I started a discussion about what people are good for in the digital revolution. Theres a lot of blah, blah, blah out there about the complexity of current business and technical environments and the need for better judgment, greater flexibility, improved communication and mo...

U.S. Health and Human Services officials to speak at the Digital Healthcare Conference

Patient Safety and Information Technology is a national priority MADISON - Kathleen Heuer, deputy assistant secretary of budget, technology and finance at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and William A. Yasnoff, MD, PhD, FACMI, and senior advisor of the National Health Informa...

TeraMEDICA offers seamless sharing of digital medical images

WAUWATOSA, Wis. Since the late 1970s, the problem of storing film from medical images such as CT scans and ultrasounds has proved an elusive challenge for the medical industry. With some medical studies involving 2,000 pictures per procedure, old methods of storing, sharing and archiving medical...

Islands in the Clickstream: Digital Religion

Editor's note: Richard Thieme's new book, Islands in the Clickstream is a collection of over 150 reflections on the digital world. WTN will be reprinting excerpts from selected chapters of Islands in the Clickstream until the end of the month. This week features an excerpt from chapter f...

Madison police adopt digital lock and key

Madison, Wis. The Madison police department has moved to speed up information access for officers, with the addition of an eToken USB key system provided by Aladdin Knowledge Systems . It has proven to provide a robust and dependable situation thats easily adopted by police officers, who a...

GE Healthcare wins $200m slice of Englands digital health-care plan

Source: gehealthcare.com Milwaukee GE Healthcare will provide digital imaging systems to the English government to power its electronic health-care initiative, the company announced on Monday. Englands National Health Service wants to install systems nationwide to allow medical images to b...

Achieving digital solidarity

Net 2004 in Lille, France. This four-year-old conference draws nearly 1,000 people from around Europe to discuss the transformative power of technology. As the lead speaker on a two-hour panel on Technological Trends and Changing Economic and Social Conditions, I was eager, frankly, to dispense...

Preview: Electronic health records, tech choices explored at Digital Healthcare Conference

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced yesterday that a new organization, the American Health Information Community (AHIC) will be formed to make recommendations for a nationwide system for storing and sharing patient's medical records electronically. This news makes the Dig...

Small Tree is streamlining digital video editing

Chippewa Valley-based Small Tree Communications , a supplier of high-performance networking solutions for the Apple Macintosh platform, recently announced a new software protocol called Blaze, expected to ship in the third quarter of 2005, that could streamline the emerging field of High-Definitio...

GE Healthcare develops digital medication system

Waukesha, Wis. - GE Healthcare and Intermountain Health Care , a nonprofit health care organization based in Salt Lake City, announced a joint project for the development of a new electronic medication administration record, also known as an eMAR, which will better enable collaboration by ever...

Sprecher Brewing unveils award-winning digital office

Glendale, Wis. - Randy Sprecher can now enjoy an award-winning office as he oversees the manufacturing of his company's award-winning beers and sodas. "The Before" - As appealing as a warm, flat pint of ale, Sprecher Brewing Co.'s offices were in dire need of new document technology and a ...

Wisconsin state agencies commended for digital innovations

Madison, Wis. Four Wisconsin state agencies received the Center for Digital Government's 2005 Digital Government Achievement Award in recognition of their innovative use of Web sites and computer applications to enhance government operations and interactions. The Center for Digital Governm...

Merge releases new digital mammography software

MILWAUKEE Merge eMed , a Merge Healthcare company and a medical imaging software and services company, today announced the release of Cedara I-ReadMammo digital mammography workstation software. This multi modality, vendor-neutral mammography workstation software product is designed to help org...

Madison top-ranked In Digital Cities Survey

Madison, Wis. - The City of Madison has been awarded the top ranking for a mid-size city in the Center for Digital Government's 2005 Digital Cities Survey, an annual review of how city governments are utilizing information technology. The annual survey is conducted by the Center for Digital Gov...

Digital Government Summit seeks to bridge the digital divide

Madison, Wis. Putting technological resources together in a coordinated fashion was the topic for government IT leaders, law enforcement officers, and government executives at the third annual Digital Government Summit this week at Monona Terrace. Matt Miszewski, CIO for the State of Wiscons...

Eau Claire digital signage firm gets angel investment

StrandVision , latest business venture of Mike Strand in Eau Claire and a finalist in Governor Jim Doyle's last business-plan competition, has landed $250,000 from the Chippewa Valley Angel Investors Network . StrandVision, formerly Online Kiosks, has a plan to put video screens showing advert...

StrandVision to put digital signage in local dental office

Eau Claire, Wis. StrandVision, which makes digital displays for lobbies and waiting rooms, said Group Health Cooperative of Eau Claire has signed on to place a 42-inch plasma TV in its local dental office. The screen will display information on local weather, news, office hours, treatments, a...

FDA approves advanced digital mammography system

Waukesha - GE Healthcare's next-generation digital mammography system, described as a breakthrough advancement in breast imaging, has received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The system offers more evidence that the medical community is moving to adopt digital mam...

StrandVision markets digital signage to K-12 schools

Eau Claire, Wis. - With students oriented toward television and other high tech electronic media, an Eau Claire-based provider of hosted digital signage services has introduced a digital signage product for K-12 schools. StrandVision, LLC will market a Web-based signage system that uses exis...

Does redefining universal service help bridge the digital divide?

When there was a monopoly phone service prior to the 1984 divestiture, the prime directive in providing telecom was to "give exclusivity in the territory and we will provide universal service to everyone". In exchange for getting exclusivity to a geographic subscriber base, the traditional ph...

Businesses could bridge digital divide in Milwaukee with used computers

Milwaukee, Wis. - Businesses in metropolitan Milwaukee and perhaps throughout Wisconsin will be asked to donate their used computers to advance digital inclusiveness as Milwaukee moves toward completion of its wireless Internet installation. The City of Milwaukee , having finalized a contrac...

Doyle wants sales tax applied to digital downloads

Madison, Wis. - Tucked away on page 417 of the executive budget book outlining the 2007-09 spending blueprint introduced this week by Gov. Jim Doyle is another attempt to apply the state's five percent sales tax to online purchases of digital content. The proposed tax, put forth two years af...