INSIDE WISCONSIN

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – On one side are regulators hoping to foster easier exchange of health data, some patient advocates and some researchers and healthcare app developers. One the other side are major health records firms such as Verona-based Epic, the...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – After decades of willingly sharing their personal information online, sometimes with people, companies and groups they don’t even know, most Americans think it’s time to regain a measure of control. Aside from the fact it would be...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The mythology that Wisconsin is somehow not a good place to start and grow a business took another hit the other day from someone who digests and understands the data, the chief economist for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue. His...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – As a new year unfolds and employers in all business sectors ponder how to make 2020 successful, the task of finding, training and keeping enough workers is often at the top of the list. Health care is no exception to the “new normal” of...

By Tom Still There are many who believe society has “summoned the demon” through technologies that threaten to addict us to screens, make us more vulnerable to cyber-snoops and replaceable by machines. All possible, of course, but the same society that has released...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – A source close to the toy industry has leaked a copy of Santa’s perks list for Wisconsin politicians and newsmakers. Here’s what the good boys and girls in Madison and Washington will reportedly find in their stockings this Christmas. But...