JONATHAN BARAN Special to the State Journal There’s talk of how artificial intelligence will disrupt every sector of the economy. Yet, in health care, an industry that represents 18 percent of the GDP, we are far from computers taking over. Instead, we have the opposite problem...
DAVID VAN SICKLE, Special to the State Journal Between 1981 and 1987, emergency rooms in Barcelona experienced more than two dozen days when visits for asthma increased significantly. In total, the events sent more than 1,100 people to the hospital and, tragically, resulted in 20 deaths. It...
HealthMyne and the Mayo Clinic have signed a joint development agreement to evaluate HealthMyne’s Quantitative Imaging Decision Support (QIDS) platform in its Scottsdale, Ariz., facility, the company announced recently. According to a release, the purpose is to assess therapy response of various treatment protocols used in cancer...
A management tool for lower back pain from Madison-based Kiio helped reduce both medical costs and emergency department visits, according to a recent pilot study. Participants in the study also had fewer injections, MRIs and filled opioid prescriptions than those without the Kiio application. The pilot was...
MADISON, Wis.--Today, Kiio and Quartz Health Solutions unveiled the results of a one-year study to evaluate the impact of Kiio’s digital program on the challenges presented by low back pain. Quartz offered Kiio, customized and white-labeled to Quartz as MobileBack℠, to plan members with a...
A Madison company that says its findings will “revolutionize” the way autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed and treated is getting a boost from a scientific publication. Research conducted by Madison-based NeuroPointDX in collaboration with the MIND Institute at the University of California-Davis shows subtle differences in...
Redox, a Madison, WI-based startup that develops digital tools enabling healthcare applications to exchange data with patient health records systems, has raised $3 million in debt funding, according to a document filed with federal securities regulators. Twelve investors participated in the financing round, according to the document. Redox...
MADISON, Wis. - There were a couple of stories this week that speak to both an industry approach to the counterproductive health care politics played in Washington, and the impact the greater Madison region’s health care sector can have in what health care looks like in...
The chief executive officer of Madison-based Exact Sciences Corp. will receive a Wisconsin Biohealth Award for his contributions to the state’s biohealth industry. Kevin Conroy, chairman and CEO of Exact Sciences, is receiving the Wisconsin Biohealth Business Achievement Award. BioForward, an organization that represents more than 200...
Judy Faulkner, the billionaire CEO of the medical records software company Epic Systems, offered musings on topics from Silicon Valley companies taking on health care technology to a vision of a unified global health care records system in her keynote address at the annual Epic...