2024 Health Care Heroes: Dr. Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds
As chief health equity officer, Edmonds established IU Health’s Office of Health Equity Research and Engagement.
As chief health equity officer, Edmonds established IU Health’s Office of Health Equity Research and Engagement.
A big proponent of education and mentorship, Smucker is a leader in the Indiana Spine Group Fellowship program and teaches physician assistant students from local and regional programs.
Murphy has managed more than 100 pediatric transplants since Riley Children’s Health opened its Heart Transplant Center 24 years ago.
Weaver credited the rescue to the one-on-one attention she and Mason can give to patients at Avon Rehab Services, part of Hendricks Regional Health.
Hoffmann spends 75% of her time on the road traveling across Indiana leading classes with community partners, including the state chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
This year, there were 10 marijuana-related bills filed in the Indiana House and Senate. None made it out of committee.
The Secretary of State’s Securities Division announced the action Tuesday against VoCare Inc. and three of its officers.
The Indiana Donor Network, which serves 85 of Indiana’s 92 counties, is booming with a record number of registered donors and transplanted organs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration designated psilocybin as a “breakthrough therapy” for treatment-resistant depression in 2018 and for major depressive disorder in 2019.
Denials can also result in cost shifting to patients.
Several Indiana employers, universities and health care organizations have launched the Indiana Business Health Collaborative, a new partnership that wants to improve Indiana’s health profile through private-sector solutions.
Green’s new journey to becoming a leading advocate for wiping out tuberculosis worldwide has its roots in another of his philanthropic interests: the health of mothers and infants in Sierra Leone.
An agency bill that passed unanimously out of committee died Thursday in an unusual move following the addition of several bipartisan amendments seeking transparency and accountability on a $1 billion Medicaid funding shortfall.
Indiana will receive more than $7.6 million from the settlement with Publicis Health to help address the opioid crisis.
Wong’s appointment comes just a few weeks after BioCrossroads released a report warning that Indiana’s life-science sector is starting to lag the nation in growth and market share and will require a focused effort to stay competitive.
These diseases account for tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths yearly.
The bill would would prohibit health insurers from requiring prior authorization for routine medical services, federally approved prescription drugs, emergency health care and other services.
Indianapolis-based DecisionRx uses technology to recommend medication decisions to physicians and pharmacists based on genetic profiles, existing medication regimes and contraindications.
A bill to require earlier interventions for students struggling with literacy is top-of-list for Indiana Senate Republicans, who unveiled their 2024 agenda Thursday morning.
The locations include six pediatric practices and one OB/GYN practice in Anderson, Greenwood, Indianapolis and Kokomo.