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CPM Helps Physicians Group Retain Patients with New Kind of House Call

Middleton, WI Combining database and personalized print technology, a physicians group in the Midwest is making a new kind of house call to retain patients. Instead of waiting for patients to come to their offices for treatment, these physicians are sending personalized messages by mail with reminders for important check-ups and screenings -- and seeing response rates of 10 to 21 percent. <b...

Cardinal Health likes growth potential of Viasys NeuroCare Group

As part of a merger agreement between Cardinal Health and Viasys Healthcare, Car...

Technology consulting group adds Sanders

The Wisconsin lobbying firm has added Henry Sanders, Jr. to...

CIO Leadership Series: Kathi Christian, QTI Group

While there are advantages to having them combined - primarily, the natural tendency to evaluate the cost-bene...

CEO of healthcare group still hopeful IT will save employers money

Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the ,...

California group says ruling weakens WARF's stem cell patent

regarding its stem cell patent, but a spokesman for the Wisconsin foundation said its recent $1 million jury reward in the Xenon Pharmaceuticals case demonstrates its ability t...

Midwest plays small role in VC investment, angel groups to the rescue

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Group promoting classified research elects officers

The Wisconsin Security Research Consortium held an organizational meeting last week to name its leadership. The group will try to bring classified research to Wisconsin institutions. Tom Hefty, former co-chairman of the Governor's Economic Growth Council, is president of the board of directors. He is now with law firm Reinhart, Boerner and Van Deuren. <a href="http://www.engr.wi...

Milwaukee regional development group agrees on name

Representatives from seven counties in southeast Wisconsin have agreed to use the name "Milwaukee 7" as a collective brand for economic development in the area. The Milwaukee Regional Economic Development Council decided on the name, and an accompanying logo, at its first meeting this week. The organization is three months old. <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/bym/news/dec05/377...

Local group building Dane County economic development corp.

Dane County could have a regional economic development corporation in place by the end of 2006. That's if the Collaboration Council, a group of local businesspeople and politicians, can pull together a base of support that crosses the boundaries between municipalities in the county. Their goal is to brand Dane County as a whole as a competitor in the global marketplace for talent, develo...

Bruker AXS to acquire companies, form Microanalysis Group

. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the acquisition is expected to close in the fourth qu...

Radical changes predicted for IT groups

By 2011, three-quarters of IT businesses will have found their key roles transformed. Ten percent will have closed their doors, and another ten percent will find themselves relegated to commodity status. The predictions were made this week at the <a href="http://w...

Wisconsin private college group picks Jenzabar for common IT platform

Jenzabar on Monday reported an agreement with the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Univer...

Midwest large cap life science group strengthening in the third quarter

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Info security group announces first Eastern European chapter

"The addition of Poland as o...

Memphis hospital group installing Johnson Controls wireless infrastructure

The wireless distribution system will provide wireless...

Frantz Group brings Web conferencing in-house

Brevient installed an appliance server at headquarters in J...

Tascon Group launches online business valuation tool

The Business Analyst is being offered as a licensed software application, and is available at The program is based on a bus...

Manufacturing group says efforts led to big improvements

is a state-supported, non-profit organization providing consulting services to small and me...

Group honors UW-Madison's Stunden for IT leadership

The organization honored Stunden for "strong and ground-breaking leadership in the information technology busine...

Environmental group works to run cars on Culver's old frying oil

The c...

Boston entrepreneur to enliven Milwaukee angel group

Silicon Pastures, a Milwaukee investor group that has weathered a couple of slow years, is staging a comeback under the leadership of tech entrepreneur Pehr Anderson. The angel network, a group of individual investors with high net worth, allows investors to pool strategies, knowledge and plans to make more effective investments. It began in 2000 with 13 investors, and after launching su...

Madison bishop with stem-cell views elected to national ethics group

Madison Bishop Robert Morlino has been elected chairman of the board of the National Catholic Bioethics Center, which discusses issues such as stem-cell research. in Madison that the destruction of a human embryo is always morally wrong, and that research on embryonic stem c...

Online aid group taps former Wisconsin governor McCallum

The non-profit was begun in 2000 through a software donation from , a supply-chain software provider. Since then i...

UW-Madison workgroup helps state companies tap the power of RFID

In the United States and elsewhere, hundreds of major companies are scurrying to develop strategies for implementing radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology af...

Angel groups in Chicagoland beginning to sprout

Last week, fellow ePrairie columnist Darrel Dvorak wrote about a linked national angel g...

CIO of CUNA Mutual Group talks on business-IT fusion

When Rick Roy came into CUNA Mutual Groups IT shop, he wasnt coming into a crisis or a turn-around situation. His predecessor, Steve Haroldson, retired leaving its IT organization with strong connections to the business and was delivering on its operational promises. As the new guy with big shoes to fill, Rick needed a sophisticated approach to bui...

Instant messaging comes to groups

Today, Palo Alto-based start-up Five Across introduced a new instant messenger system, called InterComm. At first blush, another IM system may seem redundant, silly and unnecessary. After all, AOL, MSN, and Yahoo already capture the vast majority of consumer IM users. What can a newcomer bring to the party to upset that triumvirate? The answer, it turns out, is plenty . . . and it doesn'...

Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void

CHICAGO Anyone who has traveled to London and taken the tube (the subway for New Yorkers or the L for Chicagoans) is constantly besieged by tape loops of mind the gap, which is a warning for the dark hole or space between the subway car and the concrete waiting area as one gets on or off the tube. In other words, beware of the void as it can be dangerous for your health. In l...

SecurePipe and META Security Group join forces to provide regulation-compliant managed security

Madison-based an...

CPM Marketing Group, Announces Alliance for Healthcare Technology

The multi-state partner ship will combine complimentary services from each organization, enabling healthcare providers to improve health, patient loyalty, business development and return on investment. These include CPM's integrated patient relationship management tools such as comprehensive databases, predictive segmentation and variable digital imaging, and the MHASC's Interactive Data System (...

TriMas Corporation's Cequent Group Acquires Chem-Chrome, Inc.

TriMas Corporation, a growth company of diversified businesses, announced today that its Cequent Transportation Accessories Group has acquired Chem-Chrome, Inc., a provider of zinc plating services. Chem-Chrome is headquartered in Schofield, Wis. and has been a longtime processor for Cequent's Trailer Products division....