Colleen Powers, an attorney shareholder and board member for Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, works with hospitals and other health care service providers on pressing issues facing our health care system.
Suranga Kasthurirathne is a research scientist at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Regenstrief Institute and assistant professor
in the department of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Lindsay Weaver started as Indiana’s chief medical officer on Feb. 3, 2020—a month before the state had its first case of COVID-19. She has been fully engaged with the Indiana Department of Health’s COVID-19 response ever since. In addition, she continues to work several shifts a month in the emergency department at Methodist Hospital.
For decades, one industry—health care—has largely clung to its traditional model of person-to-person visits in brick-and-mortar buildings, even as other industries have gone virtual. It took a pandemic to disrupt everything, almost overnight.
The city of Indianapolis and the Broad Ripple Village Association expect to spend a combined $1.2 million on the RiverWalk multi-use trail, which will run along the north side of Broad Ripple Avenue.
Zig Therapeutics Inc. wants to raise about $100 million to build a health-digital system that would allow doctors to monitor and adjust the dosing of drugs for patients based on their real-time therapeutic response to a drug.
The pandemic created treacherous conditions for eating disorders, leading to surges in new cases and relapses that are not abating as restrictions are loosened and COVID-19 cases subside, doctors and other specialists say.
If lawmakers override Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto, any local orders to wear masks, set permitted capacity in bars and restaurants, or attendance caps at events would be swept away immediately, the health officials said.
Matthew Sause took the helm of the 4,500-person Roche Diagnostics’ North American operations in Indianapolis in November 2019—just four months before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and much of the planet went into lockdown.
Companies are offering plenty of incentives to encourage their workers to get COVID vaccinations, but few, if any, are requiring the shots as a condition for coming back to work—or, in the case of new hires, for getting a job offer.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s veto marks another pushback against fellow Republicans’ legislative efforts to weaken the powers of the governor or others during emergencies such as the pandemic.
Make telemedicine your first choice for most doctor visits. That’s the message some U.S. employers and insurers are sending with a new wave of care options.
U.S. health regulators pledged again Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes, this time under pressure from African American groups to remove the mint flavor popular among Black smokers.
Two of the largest health organizations in Indiana are pleading with Gov. Eric Holcomb to veto a bill they say would hamper the ability of local health officials to respond to emergencies.
Even without the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the U.S. is still on pace to meet its vaccination goals. Perhaps more concerning is the potential blow to public confidence in all of the vaccines.
The acquisition will get Microsoft deeper into hospitals and the health care industry through Nuance’s widely used medical dictation and transcription tools.
This was a political decision. The governor is in a tough situation with continuing pressure from the right wing of his party to eliminate mitigation requirements.
