2020 CTO of the Year: Kevin Jones
Jones’ co-workers say he has brought the Indiana Department of Child Services “out of the technology dark age and into the micro-chip millennium.”
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2020 CTO of the Year: David Speicher
Speicher helped Aspire Indiana Health migrate all its technology to the cloud over three years.
2020 CTO of the Year: Charles Wagner
Under Wagner’s technology leadership, Franciscan Alliance has accelerated its virtual care capabilities and modernized its delivery model.
2020 Innovation Issue: Regenstrief’s half century of health innovations
The not-for-profit and its health research are a testament to the idea that all innovation is related—even when the connection appears tenuous at first glance.
Rush to market: COVID-19 puts Roche’s emergency response team to test
Compressing a two-year job into nine weeks is a remarkable—almost unheard of—feat. Yet that’s what Roche Diagnostics did when it shipped the first commercially available tests for the novel coronavirus on March 13.
2020 Health Care Heroes: A new way of treating addicted moms, babies
Dr. Emily Scott and her colleagues found that keeping moms and babies together resulted in fewer babies needing morphine to wean them off their addiction.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Helping Hoosiers who are HIV-positive
The Damien Center is the largest and oldest provider of services to the local HIV/AIDS community. It has a budget of $12.5 million and about 70 employees.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Cutting non-emergency 911 calls while aiding residents
Some people call 911 for non-emergency assistance multiple times a day because they don’t know where else to turn. Each call requires the deployment of a vehicle, equipment and personnel.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Decades of research yields drug for bone disease
The drug Crysvita can be a game-changer for children and adults with X-Linked Hypophosphatemia, a painful and deforming bone disease that causes rickets and softening of the bones.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Simultaneous transplant of organs reduces rejections
Research shows simultaneous heart-kidney transplantation can reduce the renal failure that often occurs in post-transplant heart patients, who would then typically have to wait three or four years for a new kidney.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Breakthroughs boost spina bifida patients
Thanks to care advancements supported by and pioneered at Riley, spina bifida patients are living longer, healthier and more independently.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Doctor renowned for putting patients first
It’s not unusual to hear a doctor described as compassionate and caring. But when you hear Dr. Thomas Bright’s patients and colleagues in Anderson describe him that way, you get the idea Bright lives those qualities to an unusual degree.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Devoting a career to those with special needs
For 40 years, Dr. Daniel Shull has been the medical director at New Hope and has learned a thing or two about caring for the organization’s special patient population.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Surgeon repairs the littlest of hearts
Dr. Mark Turrentine’s interest in medicine started in western Kansas, migrated to Indianapolis and now takes him around the world performing heart surgery on children.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Nurse finds new passion after lymphoma diagnosis
A lab where cancer patients receive chemotherapy is where Kerry Skurka identified a problem and forged her new path in health care.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Showing deformities can be overcome
As co-coordinator of Riley Children’s Health’s Cleft & Craniofacial Anomalies Program, Caitlin Church coordinates patient care for children born with cleft lips and palates and other abnormalities.
2020 Health Care Heroes: A caregiver for families in poverty, disarray
Wanda Thruston decided at the age of 5 that she wanted to be a nurse. She wasn’t much older when she had a vision of working in a clinic that took care of people in distress.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Magic Castle Cart delivers smiles to hospitalized kids
Bob Baxter has been making weekly rounds at Riley Hospital for Children to coax smiles out of kids since he retired as president of the Riley Children’s Foundation in 1996.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Greeter brings charm, compassion to job
Brian Morson’s almost 20-year career as a greeter at the main entrance to St. Vincent Anderson Hospital was inspired by his short stay there in 2002 and by the country he left behind.
2020 Health Care Heroes: Retired exec pours passion into kids’ bereavement camp
Garry Rollins was on the brink of retirement when he decided to help out at Camp Erin, a free bereavement camp for children that is sponsored by Community Health Network.