GRAND RAPIDS - Michigan Health Connect, the state's largest health information exchange, and Michiana Health Information Network, one of the most mature HIEs in the nation serving healthcare providers in Indiana and Michigan, have announced a partnership to share information vital to patient health. ?This connection to Michigan Health Connect allows important health information to
GRAND RAPIDS ? A veteran journalist has teamed with a social media whiz to create F7Studios, an audio and video podcasting production company that is working with established content providers to create channels to offer unique news, information and educational programming on the Internet. Mike Brennan, Editor & Publisher of MITechNews.Com, a veteran business technology
LANSING - Michigan already has strong relationships with a number of Japanese companies and is ready to expand on those, as well as build new ones, Governor Rick Snyder said Monday at the 2013 Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference in Tokyo. In addition to Michigan's strong presence of foreign companies, recent tax changes and other reforms
DEARBORN ? ISACA Detroit's Sept. 18 Chapter Meeting features a talk called Dark Cloud Rising during dinner and another called Data Masking Case Study after. The dinner speaker is Melissa Markey, while the post dinner discussion will be offered by Keith Fournier, MA, MBA, PMP, APMC, CMS, GISP, CDIA. The meeting will be held at
TROY ? Susan Anthony, an attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will keynote a day-long event Sept. 20 that will tell you how to protect your intellectual property in the global marketplace. The registration fee includes continental breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon breaks as well as a copy of the Basic Guide to
DETROIT - The Southeast Michigan Purchasing Managers Index for August hit 60.2, a 13 percent increase over July's PMI of 53.1, reflecting continued strengthening of the local economy. The three-month average, however, was relatively unchanged at 54.2. Among components of the index, the Commodity Prices Index rose in August to 55.6 from 54.8 in July
DEARBORN - The Ford Motor Co. Fund has awarded $225,000 in grants to nine colleges, including four from Michigan, to support building sustainable communities. The Ford College Community Challenge is a national challenge grant competition that recognizes colleges and universities that utilize a school?s resources to address an urgent community need related to the grant?s
ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan researchers Thursday released a series of reports that content while considerable natural gas reserves are believed to exist in the state and high-volume hydraulic fracturing has the potential to help access them, possible impacts to the environment and to public health must be addressed. Though modern high-volume hydraulic fracturing
BEIJING, China - Marking the beginning of a new effort to draw Chinese visitors to Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday at an event in Shanghai unveiled the effort to make Michigan a destination for a growing Chinese tourism market. While just some 1.5 million Chinese visited the U.S. in 2012, that was an increase
LANSING - Even as Republicans, both in Michigan and in national circles, cast about for potential candidates for U.S. Senate, former Secretary of State Terri Land, the only announced GOP candidate, continues to poll well. A survey released Thursday by the Republican polling firm Harper Polling showed Ms. Land leading a possible four-way Republican primary