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Health care providers opening to technology
Some health care system are finally allowing online scheduling.
Reform could create more ’boutique’ doctors
Health reform could accelerate trend toward two tiers of care, with concierge services like Dr. Matt Priddy offers at the top and long waits and minimal attention at the bottom.
Hospitals add even more docs
Recent acquisitions by IU Health and Franciscan Alliance keep up a trend of physicians becoming employees of hospital systems, in preparation for changes under health care reform.
Reform law gives charters leeway to hire unlicensed teachers
Legislation that expands charter schools in Indiana also could increase the number of teachers at those schools without licenses, making it easier for educators like Eric Nentrup to take non-traditional paths to the classroom.
Endocyte’s potential enthralls investors
Shares of Endocyte Inc. have doubled since the company’s initial public offering in February—even though the common wisdom is it won’t see sales from its first cancer drug until 2014.
FEIGENBAUM: Passage of Daniels’ agenda will spawn sweeping change
You shouldn’t have much trouble discerning the immediate winners from the 2011 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Economist: Expect boom in medical offices
Demand for medical office buildings is set to grow twice as fast as it was expected to in the next decade, thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Dr. Sara Wine, a family medicine specialist, joined St. Vincent Physician Network in Fishers. She received her medical degree from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Iowa.
St. Vincent Health named Gary Everling its system executive of business development. He will help St. Vincent’s 20 hospitals develop relationships with physicians, businesses, community leaders and non-affiliated hospitals, as well as putting together mergers and acquisitions. Everling was most recently head of business development for St. Vincent Carmel Hospital.
Indianapolis-based Harlan Laboratories Inc. named Dr. Manuela Leone as its new president of contract research services. A former pediatrician, Leone has spent the past 18 years in the contract research services industry, at such companies as Pharmacia, MDS Pharma Services and ICON Clinical Research. She will be based at Harlan’s contract research services facility in Itingen, Switzerland.
WEB REVIEW: In often-frivolous app world, these can save lives
Dad isn’t just recording workout data or accessing records that already exist, he’s creating his own diagnostic information.
IU Health name meets little resistance in Purdue country
Tippecanoe County residents may despise Indiana University sports teams, but they seem to have had no problem welcoming IU to their community to provide health care.
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Community Hospital South has hired Dr. Sheryl King as director of inpatient pediatrics. She holds a medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine. King practiced in Bloomington for 12 years before moving her practice to Johnson County in 2007.
Community South Hospital named Cheri Pfahler, a registered respiratory therapist, as its neonatal and pediatric cardiopulmonary manager. She comes to Community after serving as clinical coordinator of respiratory care for women’s and children’s services at Franciscan St. Francis Health.
Community Health Network named Jessie Westlund, a registered nurse, its chief integration officer. Westlund has previously been CEO of Community’s home health services unit.
Community Health Network also named Tom Malasto as chief operating officer of its three Indianapolis hospitals: Community North and the Indiana Heart Hospital in Castleton, Community East and Community South, along the county line between Marion and Johnson counties. Malasto has previously been CEO of the Indiana Heart Hospital.
Victor Esan has accepted the position of chief practice officer of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, where he will work to form and grow physician partnerships in and around Muncie. Esan previously worked at Howard Regional Health System in Kokomo. He earned master's degrees in public management and business administration from Indiana University Kokomo.
India J. Taylor Owens, a registered nurse, has been selected as director of emergency services at Franciscan St. Francis Health, overseeing the emergency departments at Franciscan’s Beech Grove, Indianapolis and Mooresville hospitals. Owens most recently served as director for emergency services at Indiana University Health West Medical Center in Avon.
WellPoint Inc. named Meg Rush vice president of consumer experience and e-marketing. Most recently, Rush served as vice president of product management and design for WebMD Health Services. Rush holds a bachelor's degree from St. John Fisher College in New York and a master's of management degree from Pennsylvania State University.
Adam Chavers has joined Indiana University Health as executive director of corporate real estate for the chain’s hospitals statewide. Before joining IU Health, Chavers served for seven years as Indianapolis-based Kite Realty Group Inc.’s vice president of acquisitions, dispositions and investor relations.
Roche wins approval of HPV test
Roche Diagnostics Corp. won regulatory approval for a new HPV test, giving it a technological edge in the $300 million market for automated cervical cancer tests.
Indianapolis angel investors land at Flagship Enterprise Center in Anderson
Capital from members of StepStone Angels could fund business incubator’s tenants.
MYERS: A boardwalk view of medicinal marijuana
Carnival barkers hustle you into the “doctor’s office,” where virtually any diagnosis leads to a “prescription” for the FDA-unapproved “Sour Diesel.”
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Indianapolis-based Krieg DeVault LLP hired Jason D. Schultz as an associate in its health care practice, working from the firm’s office in Mishawaka. Schultz focuses on transactions and compliance for hospitals, physician groups, mental health facilities, radiology facilities and medical device manufacturers. He previously worked for Indianapolis-based Baker & Daniels LLP.
Indiana University Health named Dr. Douglas Schwartzentruber medical director of cancer services and associate director for clinical affairs at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis. Schwartzentruber, a surgical oncologist, most recently was medical director of cancer care at IU Health’s hospital in Goshen. Last year he was named to Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for his research showing potential for a vaccine therapy to treat cancer. He is a graduate of the IU School of Medicine and a former research investigator at the National Cancer Institute.
IU Health hired James G. Terwilliger as vice president of cancer services for its statewide network of hospitals. Most recently, Terwilliger served as executive vice president of cancer centers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Terwilliger holds a bachelors degree from Boston University and a masters of public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Indiana Health Information Exchange named Jim Hill vice president of sales. Previously, Hill was CEO of his own software company, Achievant, which provided human capital-management services. Hill holds a bachelor's degree from IU and an MBA in marketing from Butler University.
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Physicians, dentists, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists and other medical workers would have to undergo a criminal background check when applying for a new state license under a bill approved Tuesday by an Indiana House of Representatives committee, according to the Associated Press. The House Public Health Committee voted 7-1 in favor of the bill, which would permit state boards to suspend, deny or revoke the licenses of people with criminal offenses determined to affect the person's ability to perform their duties. The Senate already has approved a version of the bill, which also would allow state boards to randomly select some seeking license renewals for criminal checks. Nearly 200,000 people are currently licensed or certified in one of the 20 professions specified in the bill. The bill allows action against a person's license if they've been convicted of various offenses, including illegal drug possession, fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance and sex crimes.
After two setbacks in the United States, Eli Lilly and Co. and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. won the backing of European Union regulators for Bydureon, their once-weekly diabetes medicine. The London-based European Medicines Agency recommended Bydureon for approval in adults with Type 2 diabetes, according to a statement from the companies. The drug still must receive final approval from the European Commission. Bydureon is a long-acting version of Byetta, the twice-daily drug introduced by Indianapolis-based Lilly and San Diego-based Amylin in 2005. But Byetta has been losing sales to Denmark-based Novo Nordisk A/S's once-daily version of the medicine, Victoza, which has also been shown to be slightly more effective at reducing patients’ blood-sugar levels than Bydureon in a clinical trial. Lilly and Amylin had hoped to get Byrdureon approved a year ago. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration delayed a decision in the spring and then in October demanded a new study of Bydureon’s effects on patients’ hearts. Lilly and Amylin expect to resubmit Bydureon to the FDA in the second half of this year. Analysts expect sales of Bydureon to top $1 billion a year and perhaps even approach $2 billion. Byetta had sales last year of $710 million, while Victoza rang up $450 million.
Indianapolis-based NICO Corp. won approval to sell its Myriad surgical device in Europe, the company reported last week. NICO can now sell its minimally invasive brain-tumor-removal device in the 27 countries that constitute the European Union. The Myriad device has been for sale in the United States since 2009 and has been used in more than 1,000 procedures, involving both adults and children. About 2 million people worldwide are diagnosed each year with a brain tumor.
Indiana panel OKs criminal checks on medical workers
Physicians, dentists, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists and other medical workers would have to undergo a criminal background check when applying for a new state license under a bill approved Tuesday by an Indiana House committee.
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Dr. Kevin B. Gebke has been named OneAmerica Professor of Preventive Health Medicine and chairman of the Indiana University Department of Family Medicine. He has been interim co-chair of the department since July 2009. He succeeds Dr. Douglas McKeag, who chaired the department for 10 years. Gebke received his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Dr. Lisa Altuglu, a pediatrician, has joined St. Vincent Physician Network in Indianapolis. Altuglu earned her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio.
Sarah Knisely-King, a registered nurse, has been named director of the emergency department at Community Hospital South. She returned to Community South after serving as interim nurse manager and assistant director of emergency care at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Fla. She earned her nursing degrees at Purdue University.
Dr. Aasha Trowbridge has been appointed medical director for Franciscan St. Francis Neighborhood Health Center, succeeding Dr. Mercy Obeime, who has been promoted to the newly created role of director for global and community health. Obeime will continue to see patients at the neighborhood clinic, but will also help expand Franciscan St. Francis Health’s involvement in health problems that extend beyond its local and national boundaries.