A Central Iowa electronic medical record startup finds opportunity among small practices and university education A Central Iowa startup built its business helping speech-language pathologists and audiologists communicate effectively with their patients’ health care insurance providers. Now, ClinicNote’s management of electronic medical records is reaching private practitioners and medical students…
This fall, Iowa State University will begin offering a two-year Master of Science degree program in artificial intelligence, through the computer science department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ISU expects to welcome five students in the program this fall, and eventually have class sizes of 60-70 in…
Virtual nurse Cari Taylor at MercyOne Medical Center’s virtual nurse command office. Photo by Kate Hayden One year ago Dr. Joel Ward recalled standing on a hospital floor unit, watching his colleagues at MercyOne Medical Center endure the height of the COVID-19 emergency in health care. “You know practically everybody…
Applications are now open to take part in the first class of the Iowa Technology Leadership Institute, a five-month program designed by the Technology Association of Iowa to provide business and leadership education to technical employees seeking to climb the professional ladder in Iowa’s technology community. The first cohort’s programming will…
Dallas-based DartPoints is testing the waters in Iowa with localized “edge-market” data centers designed to network across underserved regions in the U.S. Built in 2020, the company’s North Liberty edge data center represents one of 212 underserved markets targeted by DartPoints, which recently announced a partnership with DE-CIX International’s Internet…
Cedar Rapids-based data services company Involta announced a new product designed to enable secure remote work environments. Involta is managing VMware’s product SD-WAN (software-defined wide area networking) to provide centralized management, cloud connectivity and advanced security.
Casey’s General Stores Inc. named Paul Suarez as its first chief information security officer, the company announced Monday. Suarez will lead the company’s cybersecurity team and report to Chief Information Officer Adrian Butler. Suarez has 35 years of experience in cybersecurity and network operations, and was previously the CISO of Walmart…
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the first round of technology partners in a new initiative designed to deliver Restaurant Revitalization Funds to eligible restaurants through point-of-sale service providers Clover, NCR Corp., Square and Toast, the SBA announced this week. Once applications open, qualifying businesses will be able to work…
Less than a year after arriving in Iowa, a new community information exchange network plans to expand outreach in the state and connect more social service providers to families seeking assistance. Sponsored by CyncHealth, the Unite Iowa network uses the shared technology platform Unite Us to host community information exchanges…
Ames-based Workiva has been named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For for the third year in a row, Workiva announced Monday. The company ranked 61st on the 100 Best list and was also ranked 12th on the Best Workplace in Technology list. Workiva is the only Iowa…