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Remember when physicians were highly suspicious of retail clinics in drugstores' stealing business from them? Well, now that docs are employed by hospitals, the clinics are being embraced. Indiana University Health announced last week that its physicians will serve as medical directors for 19 MinuteClinic locations, including 17 in the Indianapolis area, one in Bloomington and one in West Lafayette. The clinics are in CVS drugstores, as the company is a subsidiary of Rhode Island-based CVS Caremark Corp. Signs at the clinics will indicate the affiliation with IU Health. The organizations are linking their electronic medical record systems so that, with patient permission, records could be transferred easily from MinuteClinic to an IU Health physician, especially for patients needing more care than MinuteClinic can provide. However, MinuteClinic nurse practitioners will also send patient records to non-IU Health physicians if the patient wishes. The IU Health deal is the 11th hospital partnership signed by MinuteClinic across the country.
Eli Lilly and Co. could get an earlier-than-expected ruling from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on its once-weekly version of Byetta. The FDA said it would render a decision on the new diabetes drug, called Bydureon, by Jan. 28, Lilly announced last week along with its partners, California-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Massachusetts-based Alkermes Inc. Bydureon would be a once-weekly injection of exenatide, the same compound in Byetta, which currently requires twice-daily injections. Byetta has proved effective at controlling blood sugar and even helping some patients lose weight. But concerns about it include causing pancreas problems and then competition from a similar once-daily drug called Victoza, launched by Denmark-based Novo Nordisk A/S. Lilly expected to receive approval for Bydureon in 2010, but the FDA required another study to test its effects on patients’ heart rhythms. When the new requirement was announced in October, Lilly said it expected approval of Bydureon to be delayed until mid-2012. Worldwide Byetta sales last year totaled $710 million.
A $10 million research endowment at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute has attracted seven new researchers to the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Ophthalmology Department. The department will move this month to a new building at 1160 W. Michigan St. The Glicks pledged a total of $30 million to the medical school—including $20 million that went toward the 80,000-square-foot building, which will house clinical research space, a full-service optical shop and the ophthalmology outpatient clinic. The clinic, which is moving from University Hospital, will double in size. The local philanthropists hoped their gift would vault IU into the top 10 for research and prevention of eye disease.
IU Health fights Franciscan over family doc
IU Health Morgan Hospital sued Dr. Dianna Boyer on Aug. 3 to stop her from moving her practice to a facility Franciscan St. Francis Health is building in Martinsville.
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Carrie Schroeder, a registered nurse, has been named joint care coordinator for the Center for Joint Health at Community Hospital South. Schroeder has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Franklin College and a nursing degree from Marian University.
Dr. Wes Wong has joined Community Health Network as its first chief physician integration officer. Wong was most recently regional vice president and national accounts medical director at Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. A neurologist by training, Wong earned his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
Sue Sandberg has been promoted to executive vice president at Community Health Network. She was most recently vice president of women’s and children’s services. She holds a nursing degree from Minnesota State University and an MBA from DePaul University.
Jim O’Donnell has been named Community Health Network’s chief pharmacy officer. He was previously pharmacy director at Community Hospital East.
Dr. Melanie Sanders has joined Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Surgeons with St. Francis Medical Group. She most recently worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she had clinical and residency teaching responsibilities. Prior to that she was in practice with Orthopaedic Medicine of Indiana and OrthoIndy. Sanders earned her medical degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine.
Dr. Jessica Nguyen Gillespie has joined Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons of St. Francis Medical Group. She previously served as clinical professor of plastic surgery at the University of Iowa. A native of Plainfield, she received her medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The CEO of Indiana University Health Goshen Hospital will retire soon, after 16 years with the hospital. Dr. James O. Dague did not specify a date for his departure, saying he would allow the hospital’s board time to find a replacement.
RUSTHOVEN: The pipedream of legalized marijuana
In Indiana, as elsewhere, advocates of medical marijuana use—particularly those aflame with government’s power to “do good”—are blind to unintended consequences and the realities of human motivation and behavior.
SHELLA: Rename clunky IUPUI for Doc Bowen
You could come up with a clumsier name for a college than Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, but it would be tough.
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Victoria Champion, a registered nurse and professor at the Indiana University School of Nursing, has been named associate director of population science research at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center. Champion has conducted research on behavioral oncology that has helped with earlier discovery of cancer.
Dr. Adam M. Paarlberg has joined Beech Grove Family Medicine of St. Francis Medical Group. He most recently worked in the emergency department at Rushville Memorial Hospital and completed residency training at Franciscan St. Francis Health. Paarlberg holds a bachelor’s in religion from Wabash College and earned his medical degree at the IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Tobi Reidy, a colon and rectal surgeon, has established a practice with Kendrick Colon and Rectal Center, which is owned by Franciscan St. Francis Health. She earned her medical training at Nova Southeastern University-College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Jessica Saberman, a family and pediatric physician, recently joined Indiana University Health Physicians in Fishers. She had been part of the St. Vincent Physician Network in Fishers since 2002.
Dr. Brett Neff, a family physician, will join IU Health Physicians Northside Adult & Pediatric Care, in Carmel, on Aug. 25. Neff also used to be part of the St. Vincent Physician Network in Fishers.
Dr. Jessica Swenberg and Dr. Jama Gail Edwards, both family physicians, are joining IU Health Physicians in Zionsville. Swenberg previously practiced at the Village Doctors in Zionsville. Edwards has been an independent family physician in Zionsville since 2001.
Dr. Laura Calili recently joined IU Health Physicians as a new pediatrician in Greenwood.
Consumers grow allergic to health care costs
Deloitte found that 20 percent of consumers have cut back on health care spending and 75 percent say the economic slowdown has had some impact on their willingness to spend on health care.
More life sciences firms opt to launch products in Europe
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s growing reputation for unpredictability is spurring some Indianapolis companies to join counterparts elsewhere and introduce products in Europe. The upshot is that some Americans may never benefit from innovations occurring in their backyards.
Angel investment firm adds 3rd chapter for life sciences
StepStone Business Partners has added a chapter in biotech hotbed Warsaw as part of what it hopes will eventually become a statewide network.Attention race fans: Hot dogs may be hazardous to your health
A billboard near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway features an image of hot dogs poking out of a cigarette pack adorned with a skull and crossbones. A message warns viewers that "hot dogs can wreck your health."
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Dr. Vijay Udyavar Rao has joined St. Francis Medical Group Indiana Heart Physicians. Rao most recently served as clinical instructor in cardiology at the University of California-San Francisco and has also served as a research fellow with California-based biotech firm Genentech Inc. Rao earned a bachelor’s in biology from DePauw University and his medical degree and doctorate at the Medical University of South Carolina.
The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center added two new researchers: Amber Mosley uses protein mass spectrometry to study gene expression levels; Pierrick Fournier studies the role of the immune system in bone cancers.
Indianapolis-based Senex Services Corp. has hired Brose McVey as vice president of business development. The former political aide and candidate for Congress had been consulting for Senex before his hiring. Senex buys unpaid hospital debts from patients and tries to collect them.
Despite sales spike, Effient has middling prospects
Remember Effient? The blood thinner that was once Eli Lilly and Co.’s greatest post-Zyprexa hope and then, after a slow launch, was dismissed as an abject failure? Well, it’s turning out to defy both predictions.
MYERS: The life-saving benefits of working together
We often forget that as a society there are real advantages to working (and investing) together for a common purpose.
Hospitals approach antitrust practices
Don Stumpp could not be more accurate in his [July 11 Focus column] when describing hospitals buying up medical practices.
MAURER: Let’s perpetuate this hoax while we can
An open letter to my friends in the Indiana Legislature:
IU Health name change means business for tech firms
Clarian Health’s recent rebranding to Indiana University Health has been good business for at least three companies in Indianapolis’ so-called measured-marketing sector. Such firms help a company overhaul its website and make changes to the “tweetosphere” and other social media channels.
Primary care gets a new approach: prevention
A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars.
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Noblesville-based Riverview Hospital is set to scoop up nine physicians from Indianapolis-based physician group American Health Network. The nine doctors include seven in Noblesville and two in Sheridan. American Health Network also will transfer its lease on a medical office and imaging center on River Avenue in Noblesville. The deals are set to close on July 29. Riverview officials declined to comment. Indianapolis-area hospitals have acquired a wave of physicians in the past three years. The deals are driven in part by flat or in some cases declining reimbursement rates for physicians, looming new expenses for electronic medical record systems and new provisions in the 2010 health reform law that encourage doctors and hospitals to work more closely.
Joblessness and economic jitters continue to weigh on the orthopedic industry, according to the latest financial report from Warsaw-based Biomet Inc. The company’s U.S. sales declined 3 percent to $412 million in its fourth quarter ended May 31, compared with the same quarter a year ago. Worldwide sales rose 2 percent to $715.2 million, but that was only because of currency fluctuations since this time last year. “During our fiscal fourth quarter, our sales results continued to be challenged by industry volume and price pressures that affected our sales throughout fiscal 2011,” Biomet CEO Jeffrey Binder said in a prepared statement. For the year, Biomet’s sales rose just 1 percent to $2.7 billion. The lack of growth forced Biomet to lower its valuation of many of its assets, leading to various accounting charges that produced yearly and fourth-quarter losses. Biomet’s results are watched as a key bellwether for the rest of the orthopedic industry, including Warsaw-based Zimmer Holdings Inc., which will report financial results later this month.
Wishard Health Services announced $3.2 million in fundraising for its new hospital last week, part of a campaign that has already exceeded its $50 million goal. An employee-giving campaign for the new Wishard medical center brought in about $2.2 million, making the campaign one of the largest of its kind for a public hospital, according to Wishard officials. More than 1,000 employees gave $1.1 million to the campaign, and an anonymous donor provided a dollar-for-dollar match. Wishard officials said employee giving rose 40 percent after the June 22 announcement of a $40 million gift from Indianapolis developer Sidney Eskenazi and his wife, Lois. The hospital complex that is to open in 2014 will be named the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital. Also, Wishard will rename itself Eskenazi Health in 2014. Wishard also received $1 million toward the new hospital from Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation. Lilly's name will grace the lobby of the new hospital