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“Double Indemnity”

Aug. 10

IndianapolisMuseumof Art

 You think edgy crime thrillers are something new? The great Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson have been keeping audiences on edge since 1944. That’s when Billy Wilder and co-writer Raymond Chandler taught the world what film noir was all about in their adaptation of James M. Cain’s seedy classic about an insurance man who lets a seductive married woman talk him into murder. It’s being screened large behind the IMA as part of the Summer Nights film series (which continues in a dark vein for the next two weeks with “Batman” and “Pulp Fiction” before lightening up for the season-closing “The Sound of Music.”) Details here. 

Drum Corps International World Championships

 

Aug. 9-11

Lucas Oil Stadium

The eyes of America—well, at least the eyes of hard-core marching band practitioners and fans—will be on Indianapolis Aug. 11. That’s because the top bands in the country will be competing not just for attendees at Lucas Oil Stadium but also for those watching in movie theaters across the country. If you can’t make it to the finals, there are plenty of preliminary competitions. There’s also the Celebrate Indy Arts! Parade on Aug. 11, taking off south from Pennsylvania and North streets, then following New York Street west to Meridian Street and north to the American Legion Mall. Details on all DCI events here. 

USA Funds CEO announces retirement

Carl C. Dalstrom says he will leave the student-loan guarantor on June 30, 2013. He has led the locally based not-for-profit since July 2000.

Homeless seeking shelter from heat

This summer’s heat wave is creating an increase in homeless men, woman and children seeking services, according to the Wheeler Mission. The occupancy at Wheeler's Center for Women & Children has been on par with numbers usually seen during the winter months. The center usually sees an average of 66 women and children each July. This July's average was 83.

Fair releases feverish hogs early

Most of the hogs in the swine barn at the Indiana State Fair were sent home Monday, a day early, after six pigs in a 4-H show developed high fevers. The precautionary step was taken after the Indiana Department of Health confirmed 11 statewide cases of humans contracting the flu from hogs. State fair officials said the cause of the fevers in the pigs at the state fair is not yet known.

Police seek suspect in shooting of teen

Indianapolis police are searching for a 56-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy Sunday night in their east-side neighborhood. Glenn Beard, 56, is believed to have shot Jarrell Tucker in the head and thigh after an altercation in the 100 block of North Denny Street. Beard, a former felon with a long criminal history, fled the scene in his truck. He was released from prison less than a year ago after serving time on a firearms charge.

State fair opens with attendance increase

Indiana State Fair attendance is officially up so far this year thanks to a pair of opening-weekend concerts. Those concerts, however, took place in downtown Indianapolis, so crowds at the state fairgrounds actually may be down a little.

Governors aside, feds building health care exchanges

The feds may be gaining on GOP governors who've balked at carrying out a key part of the health care overhaul law. Opponents of the law say they won't set up new private health insurance exchanges. But increasingly it's looking like Washington will do it for them.

Residential

The average rate for 30-year mortgages rose from 3.75 percent to 3.77 percent n the week ended Aug. 1, according to Bankrate.com. The rate for 15-year mortgages fell from 3.00 percent to 2.99 percent.

Fastest-growing Slingshot SEO changes strategic course

Slingshot SEO Inc., a fast-growing Internet marketing firm that made a job-creation deal with the state in 2011, said Monday that it was eliminating about 15 percent of its work force—or roughly 15 employees.

People

The Stratford retirement community has hired Margaret Clark as health care administrator. She will oversee the community’s assisted-living, memory-care and skilled-nursing neighborhoods, which it calls The Retreat. Clark most recently served as administrator at Hickory Creek at Rochester, a nursing home in Rochester, Ind.

Dr. Kevin Helms, an internist, has been hired by The Stratford retirement community as its medical director. He is part of Indianapolis-based Advanced Healthcare Associates, a group of health care providers that serves nursing home patients. Helms did his medical training at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Lynn Driver, CEO of the Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, will retire at the end of September. Driver has led the organization since its founding in 1987, and overseen its growth to 115 employees in three locations around Indiana. She will be replaced by Kellie Hanner, who is currently the organization's chief operating officer.

Company news

Kansas-based Mediware Information Systems Inc. announced plans Monday to acquire the assets of Indianapolis-based Strategic Healthcare Group LLC, which provides blood management consulting and IT programs to blood centers and hospital systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Strategic Healthcare was founded in 2006 by Dr. Timothy Hannon, offering to find cost savings for its customers and to improve safety for patients. Of particular interest to Mediware is Strategic Healthcare’s analytics technology called BloodStat, which has amassed the hospital industry’s largest database of clinical and financial information about blood use, which can serve as a benchmark for health care providers trying to improve their own use of blood. “We believe the combination of SHG’s products and expertise, with our software and large base of prestigious hospital customers, will provide additional growth opportunities and enhance our overall market position,” said Mediware CEO Thomas Mann in a prepared statement.

West Lafayette-based Endocyte Inc. thinks it can use the same technology that lies behind its experimental cancer treatments to treat polcystic kidney disease, too. The drug company announced Friday that tests of an experimental drug in mice slowed the development of cysts and preserved the function of the mice’s kidneys. Endocyte’s drug for kidney disease, EC0371, is a combination of folic acid and the drug rapamycin, an immunosuppressant often used during kidney transplants. Folic acid binds more readily with some diseased cells, which allows Endocyte’s drug combo to deliver a higher dose of a medicine without increasing side effects. That combination has appeared to prove more effective for treating some kinds of ovarian cancer, and Endocyte is moving to win approval for an ovarian cancer drug, known as EC145, in Europe.

The Indiana Health Information Exchange, based in Indianapolis, has added Greene County General Hospital in Linton to its medical-record-swapping network. That network, called the Indiana Network for Patient Care, now includes 90 hospitals and more than 20,000 physicians around the state. It processes more than 3 million exchanges of medical data every day, including laboratory results and medication histories. Swapping medical records is designed to reduce repeat procedures and cut down on medical errors, such as prescribing drugs that interact with one another.

Despite funding dip, IU bets on brains

The city that brought the world Prozac and other neuroscience drugs is doubling down on brain research with a new $52 million research center near Methodist Hospital.

Next up for Indiana biotech: Feed the world

Even though the potential payoff for health care innovation is less certain these days, the business case for new ways to produce more food has never been stronger. That’s the analysis that lies behind BioCrossroads' new report an agricultural innovation.