Subscriber Benefit
As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe Now
It may be the health care world’s version of a popularity contest, but it’s still fairly prestigious. It’s
the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of hospitals. Eleven clinical programs at Clarian Health
and the Indiana University School of Medicine were ranked among the top 50 programs nationally. The rankings
focus on high-volume hospitals and are driven in large part by reputation surveys. No other Indiana-based hospitals were named
to the list. Clarian placed 13th for urology; 14th in gastroenterology; 25th in both geriatrics and ear, nose and throat;
29th in orthopedics; 32nd in lungs; 38th in kidneys; 40th in neurology and cancer; 48th in diabetes; and 49th in cardiology.
In the latest online matchmaking service, Bloomington-based Cook Medical and Indiana University
have created an online portal where medical inventors and health care entrepreneurs can find each other. The website, i2iconnect.org,
allows users to search a database of medical companies by keywords or disease categories. i2iconnect is partly supported by
a stimulus grant from the National Institutes of Health to the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, which
is based in Indianapolis. In 2008, the Indiana Economic Development Corp. tried to start a similar portal for entrepreneurs
of all kinds.
Indianapolis-based BioCrossroads, a life sciences business development group, received a $1.25 million grant
from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, also based in Indianapolis. Fairbanks gave BioCrossroads $2.5 million to fund various
educational and public health efforts.
Eli Lilly and Co. told employees July 15 that it’s cutting 340 information technology positions in
Indiana as part of its march toward 5,500 job cuts by the end of 2011. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker eliminated 140 IT
jobs in June through retirements, resignations and some cuts. Another 115 cuts will be made this month, and the remainder
by the end of the year, according to an e-mail from Janice Chavers, a Lilly spokeswoman. All displaced workers will get a
few months to find another job within Lilly, although those opportunities are few. Workers who leave Lilly will receive severance
based on their pay grade and time served with the company. Lilly employs about 1,250 IT workers in the United States.
Three Indianapolis hospital systems were named “most Wired” hospitals by Hospital & Health Networks
magazine. Clarian Health, Community Health Network and the Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center
all made the list of the top 100 hospital systems in the country using information technology to boost quality, customer service,
safety and business operations.
Please enable JavaScript to view this content.