GRAND RAPIDS - Southeast Michigan?s largest health care provider, Henry Ford Health System, is the newest member of the state?s largest health information exchange, Michigan Health Connect. The arrangement means Henry Ford?s physicians and other medical professionals can securely share patient records with other designated providers. The electronic system is especially helpful to ensure comprehensive
DETROIT - Comerica Bank?s Michigan Economic Activity Index continued to decrease in January, down 1.6 percentage points from December, the third consecutive monthly decline. January?s reading is 54 points, or 74 percent, above the index cyclical low of 72.1. The index averaged 126 for all of 2013, 12 points above the index average for 2012.
LANSING - The winners have been announced for the 2014 Michigan Celebrates Small Business program that honors those businesses, whether second-stage or recently launched, and their supporters who greatly contribute to the overall growth of Michigan's economy. The Tenth Annual Awards Program to will be held at MSU?s Breslin Center May 6. The winners are:
TROY - Automation Alley announced the rollout of a new membership structure to give members the opportunity to pick a package that best suits the needs of their company, no matter the size of their business. The new packages are priced closer to the market value for the benefits they include and still represent a
TROY - Ken Rogers, executive director of Automation Alley, has been appointed to the Honorary Committee for the 2014 World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, taking place this year in Detroit from Sept. 7-11. The ITS World Congress is the world?s largest transportation technology exhibition and brings 10,000 national, regional and local leaders together with
DETROIT - DTE Energy in partnership with The Engineering Society of Detroit and NextEnergy have selected two Farmington Hills-based companies as finalists in this year?s DTE E-Challenge Competition. Lumecon and Illuminating Concepts will demonstrate their innovations at the Detroit Zoo and the City of Royal Oak respectively. The winner will be announced during the DTE/ESD
SALINE ? eePulse CEO Theresa Welbourne chosen has been chosen a 2014 Top Technology Trendsetter in the Technology Leader category by Survey Magazine. Welbourne is the founder of eePulse, the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and the FirsTier Banks Professor of Business at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and an affiliated research scientist at
TROY - On March 13, more than 250 business and technology professionals from across the Midwest came together for the 2nd Annual Great Lakes Business Intelligence and Big Data Summit. The event, hosted by WIT, gave attendees the opportunity to learn about proven best practices, discover the latest innovative solutions, and network with top technology
LANSING - The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced the state?s largest ever matchmaking summit to bring Michigan employers with job openings together with skilled and talented people from across the state and around the country at Ford Field in June. Pure Michigan DREAMJOB will take place on June 13 with many of the state?s leading
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. ? A new report from IDC Energy predicts global smart building technology will reach nearly $22 billion in revenue by 2017. After several years of slower-than-expected growth, the smart buildings technology market is expected to grow rapidly as there is increasingly broad market awareness of the business values generated by deploying smart building