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Is our region ripe for development of a healthcare information technology cluster? And does “the region” need to develop a strategy around such?

BioEnterprise has been working with a consultant over the past few months, trying to make a determination on that. The trigger for the evaluation has been stimulus funding around electronic medical records. To that end, BioE hosted a discussion this week around the topic and invited a cross-section of entrepreneurs, CIOs, tech transfer folks and myself (representing the broader IT community) to discuss and help them come to a conclusion on viability.

Economic news continues to dominate the media as concerns are expressed about a so-called double-dip recession, new applications for unemployment increase, local housing sales continue to slow and some economists begin to express concerns over deflation. In fact, I recently saw an article on CNBC in which economist David Rosenberg with Gluskin Sheff posited that we’re actually in a depression at this point, drawing intriguing comparisons to 1929-1930.

These uncertainties appear to be affecting the regional tech sector as well as our most recent quarterly survey showed a slight reversal of some positive trends from the first quarter survey.

Have you identified where and how your home is losing energy through leaks?  Have you performed an energy audit on your home to identify opportunities for improvement?  If you have, what have you done to correct those low-hanging fruit opportunities?