LANSING - ModuleMD has partnered with Great Lake Health Information Exchange to create a strategic alliance to electronically connect physician practices with health care systems. Health Information Exchange provides the capability of sharing clinical information electronically among disparate electronic health record systems. ModuleMD provides a flexible electronic health record to independent physician practices nationally. Based
ANN ARBOR ? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Phase II clinical trail of the nation's first clinical trial of stem cell injections in patients with the deadly degenerative disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease. Approval paves the way for UM to become the second
SAN FRANCISCO - Internet users are seeing less spam but more targeted attacks, according to a report from security software company Symantec. Looking at last year's security landscape, Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report 2013 found that traditional spam accounted for 69 percent of all e-mail in 2012, down from 75 percent in 2011. Yet, 30
ROCHESTER ? The MI Green Team announced the winners of the third annual MI Green Hall of Fame Awards, which recognize dedication and achievement of some of Michigan's green leaders in business, community service, academia and media. The 2013 MI Green Hall of Fame inductees include: Kenneth Cockrel Jr. - Detroit City Council president, founder
LANSING - A bipartisan group of U.S. House members, led by Michigan members, has called for $300 million to be added to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in the 2014 federal budget. A total of 35 U.S. House members from other Great Lakes states, and even Florida, signed a letter to the chamber's Appropriations Subcommittee
LANSING ? The Michigan Public Service Commission on Tuesday approved an expanded gas main replacement program and pipeline integrity program, as well as the recovery of the costs of those programs and the ongoing meter move out program for DTE Gas Company, formerly known as Michigan Consolidated Gas Company. As a result, a residential customer
LANSING - Tourist spending in Michigan increased about 6 percent in 2012 and should see a similar increase of 5.5 percent in 2013, an annual report by Michigan State University released on Tuesday has found. The report is more good news for the state's tourism industry coming a day after a Pure Michigan campaign report
SAN FRANCISCO - Consumer data broker Acxiom plans to introduce a service that will reveal to people what it knows about them, according to a Financial Times report. The company, which is based in Little Rock, Ark., bills itself as an enterprise data, analytics, and software-as-a-service company. It serves 47 of the Fortune 100 companies,
LANSING ? The Pure Michigan campaign had its biggest impact to date in 2012, attracting 3.8 million out-of-state visitors to the state, who spent a record $1.1 billion at Michigan businesses according to a just-completed report by Longwoods International. The report, released at this year?s Pure Michigan Governor?s Conference on Tourism being held in Detroit,
EAST LANSING - The importance of improving the Great Lakes, cleaning its waters and beaches and ridding it of invasive species, is magnified by the recognition that the entire Great Lakes region is equal to the fourth-largest economy in the world. At a forum on threats to the Great Lakes, sponsored by the Institute for