For years, Chicago was the home of bakeries that produced products known around the country – Salerno Butter Cookies, Eli’s Cheesecake, Sara Lee Pound Cake, Reddi-Whip, and Hostess Twinkies. What made this area unique? Weren’t the same ingredients – eggs, butter, flour, milk, flavorings – available elsewhere? Was the labor force uniquely trained or skilled? Was the source of infrastructure to support the baking industry limited elsewhere?
Box today announced it has brought on Aneesh Chopra, the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States, and Glen Tullman, former CEO of Allscripts, to serve as special advisors for the company’s healthcare and life sciences practice.
WiserTogether, Inc., a cloudbased, consumer-focused, health decision-making platform, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Truven Health Analytics, a leading provider of healthcare data and analytics solutions and services.
Animated YouTube videos to educate people in underdeveloped countries about medical advances and a portable HIV test lab the size of a toaster are just two of the recent innovations that have come out of the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
7Wire Ventures congratulates Special Olympics Chicago for a record number of donations and polar plungers for the 14th annual Polar Plunge Chicago. Below are photos from our day supporting Special Olympics Chicago on Sunday, March 3 at North Avenue Beach in Chicago. This was a great event for an outstanding cause that showed the generosity of the Chicago community.