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2021 forecast for Maine's health care industry: An embattled system faces more battles
Updated: January 11, 2021Maine's hospitals, clinics and other health care organizations have been ground zero of the pandemic. Even with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and the widespread adoption of remote technology, the industry will be hard pressed in 2021.
Updated: January 11, 2021
2021 forecast for Maine's broadband industry: Poised for rural expansion
Updated: January 11, 2021Remote technology has its limitations in a state like Maine, where a broadband connection simply isn't available in some rural areas. The state is scrambling to fill the digital divide.
Updated: January 11, 2021
'Bring it on!’: What 12 Maine business movers and shakers resolve to do in 2021
Updated: January 4, 2021From keeping employees safe to helping business grow, here's a roundup of New Year's business resolutions shared with Mainebiz.
Updated: January 4, 2021
UMaine and state partner to deliver high-speed internet for kids' classrooms
Updated: December 31, 2020“The heavy usage of video conferencing has dramatically increased bandwidth consumption at schools, necessitating the upgrades to gigabit speeds,” said Jeff Letourneau, executive director of Networkmaine.
Updated: December 31, 2020
There was good news for Maine in 2020. Really.
Updated: December 30, 2020In this roundup, Mainebiz looks back at some of the positive business stories reported in 2020. We're looking forward to more in 2021.
Updated: December 30, 2020
Ropeless fishing, called ‘crazy’ by some, could be real in five years
Updated: December 28, 2020The goal is to eliminate vertical lines in endangered right whale habitat. Trap retrieval systems in trials depend on pop-up buoys or other lifting devices, triggered by a remote-controlled acoustic signal.
Updated: December 28, 2020
'My focus is on people's jobs': Notable quotables from 'On the Record' interviews in 2020
Updated: December 28, 2020As 2020 draws to a close, here's a curated collection of quotes from Mainebiz "On the Record" interviews with business and nonprofit movers and shakers.
Updated: December 28, 2020
How to beef up cybersecurity at your business
December 21, 2020Guest columnist Rob Simopoulos, co-founder of Defendify, writes that having a sound cybersecurity system in the workplace is as crucial as a security system for a business's building.
December 21, 2020
Q&A: Waterville startup mentor helps entrepreneurs connect ideas with markets
December 16, 2020Nick Rimsa, co-founder of Tortoise Labs, says, “People don’t need the background or the expertise or the experience to do this, and they don‘t need to be technical. They just need to be curious.”
December 16, 2020
WEX completes acquisitions at fraction of original price, settles suit with sellers
December 16, 2020The Portland-based payments provider announced that it has closed a pair of deals for $577.5 million, a fraction of the $1.7 billion originally agreed upon in January.
December 16, 2020
Mainebiz forum tells businesses that telemedicine is here to stay, and why
Updated: December 14, 2020Telemedicine, telehealth, virtual care — whatever you call it, the use of remote technologies in caring for patients has soared during the pandemic. Experts from different areas of the health industry agreed that the new medical model benefits
Updated: December 14, 2020
Covetrus lays off 80 in North American consolidation, cuts last ties with former parent
December 10, 2020The Portland-based animal-health company, which employs 6,000 people worldwide including 300 in Maine, said the job cuts reduce duplication and allow for better customer service and expansion of technology offerings.
December 10, 2020
More Maine employers to host diverse law interns
December 10, 2020Two more law firms along with WEX and The Jackson Laboratory join the Maine Diversity Summer Associate Program launched by the state's three largest law firms this year.
December 10, 2020
On the Record: For Torey Penrod-Cambra, co-founder of HighByte, success is more than an idea
Updated: December 14, 2020In 2018 the first-time entrepreneur helped launch HighByte, a Portland industrial software company, and now it expects to double headcount in the next year. She tells Mainebiz, "Most companies begin with an idea, but HighByte began with a team."
Updated: December 14, 2020
STEM is no longer a stereotype, but Maine's workforce struggles to align with business needs
Updated: December 14, 2020Science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the "STEM" fields — are more than the province of computer coders and lab researchers. The disciplines are transforming even the most traditional Maine industries. But the state may not be ready.
Updated: December 14, 2020
Maine's senators join push for extending federal telehealth coverage
Updated: December 9, 2020"Congress needs to act now to better serve patients and health care providers during the pandemic, and to ensure that telehealth remains an option after the pandemic is over," 49 lawmakers including Maine's two senators argue in a letter to
Updated: December 9, 2020
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