The Capital Times covered a recent 1 Million Cups meeting where Wes Garnett spoke about the “gold rush” of entrepreneurs coming to Madison, Wisconsin to start digital health companies.

Xconomy recently profiled the home base of HealthX Ventures in downtown Madison, which some in the city’s business community have been calling the “Sand Hill building.”

The Capital Times covered a recent Madison luncheon focused on how the city’s burgeoning healthIT community is positioned well to take advantage of the long-promised system of lower costs for providers with better outcomes for patients.

A panel of four experts from the worlds of venture capital, medicine and digital health will set the tone for a two-day discussion of Wisconsin’s innovation assets on June 2 at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Madison.

The fast-growing Madison health IT community will be represented by at least 13 companies this week in Chicago at the industry’s leading annual conference, which brings together more than 35,000 healthcare IT professionals, clinicians, executives and vendors from around the world. 

How’s Nordic’s business these days? Our business is booming, like everybody else in healthcare IT right now. We’re doing a lot with optimization, helping a lot of Epic customers as they figure out how to leverage their investment in Epic and the EMR to not only improve care, but reduce costs at the same time.

Four Wisconsin-based venture capital groups, each with a different focus but potentially working together, have set up shop at 111 N. Fairchild St. in a sparkling new office building that offers views of the Capitol on one side and the Overture Center on the other.

Madison is in a sweet spot when it comes to creating health care IT software, programs and applications, thanks in large part to the success of Epic Systems, the electronic medical records giant located in nearby Verona.

Mark Bakken has shown he can build a successful business. Now, he wants to help others in Madison do the same.