Health Care
IQ Winner: Perfect Cross LLC
Perfect Cross LLC
W332 N6011 County Road C, Nashotah
Industry: Health care
Innovation: RapidForce Kinetic Performance Systems, shortening the gap in adhesive muscle support products
IQ Winner: GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare
9900 W. Innovation Dr., Wauwatosa
Innovation: Created the Vscan, a portable handheld ultrasound device
IQ Winner: Bruno Independent Living Aids Inc.
Bruno Independent Living Aids, Inc.
1780 Executive Dr., Oconomowoc
www.bruno.com
Industry: Independent living devices for vehicles
Innovation: The Chariot, a lifting device for small and mid-sized vehicles
Don’t hold breath for health insurance rebates
Consumers and businesses in Wisconsin will receive about $16.8 million in rebates from health insurance companies that spent more on administrative expenses and profits than allowed by the federal health care reform Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Menlo, Calif.-based Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Feds allocate $16.1 million for community health centers in Wisconsin
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced $16.1 million in grants to be awarded to community health centers in Wisconsin.
Medicaid managers are like deer in headlights
To put it in Heartland terms, state Medicaid managers are like deer in the headlights. The costs keep escalating beyond any ideas they have about control and management of the fiscal disaster that the program represents.
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Fed grants target Wisconsin clinics
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced $16.1 million in grants to be awarded to community health centers in Wisconsin.
BizTimes cover story: Mequon company may be on the verge of curing MS
Multiple sclerosis is a debilitating, often deadly disease that attacks the body's central nervous system.
Insurers to pay $16.8 million in rebates
Consumers and businesses in Wisconsin will receive about $16.8 million in rebates from health insurance companies that spent more on administrative expenses and profits than allowed by the federal health care reform Affordable Care Act, according to an analysis by the Menlo, Calif.-based Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Milwaukee Biz Blog: Preventing release of lethal science
When researchers used federal funding to genetically mutate the lethal H5N1 bird flu virus to make it capable of respiratory transmission between ferrets, the U.S. government was caught flat-footed on how to proceed with this potentially dangerous research.
