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Dunkin Donuts in Carmel robbed

Police say a man with a black handgun robbed a Dunkin Donuts shop in Carmel just after 9 p.m. Monday. The man took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled through the rear door of the business at 1305 S. Rangeline Road.

Woman, 21, dies in triple shooting

A triple shooting in the 700 block of North Denny Street fatally wounded a woman about 6 p.m. Monday. The dead woman, Myeah Davis, 21, was found in a yard in the east-side neighborhood. Another victim, who is in serious condition, was found in the house. Another victim was in good condition after getting a ride to the hospital before police arrived at the scene.

Victims tied up in home robbery

Four armed intruders wearing Halloween masks forced their way into a far-north-side apartment Tuesday morning, and then tied up, pistol-whipped and robbed four residents. The incident happened about 4:30 a.m. at Annaberry Park Apartments, near West 79th Street and Harcourt Road. The robbers got away with more than $1,000 in cash, computer equipment, TVs and mobile phones. The victims suffered bruises and facial lacerations.

Lawmakers considering more changes to patent laws

U.S. lawmakers, influenced by companies including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., Cisco Systems Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., are considering the second set of patent-law changes in three years as the courts try to race ahead of Congress.

Fishers seeking public input on tax-hike proposal

Fishers’ Town Council is convening a special meeting next week to hear what residents think of a proposal to raise the food-and-beverage tax by 1 percent to fund economic development projects.

People

Dr. Amy Schmidt, a pathologist, has joined Wishard-Eskenazi Health. She did her medical training and received a doctoral degree at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

Dr. Frank Messina, an emergency medicine physician, has been named medical director of the Wishard-Eskenazi Health Transition Support Department. Messina earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and did his medical training at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York in 1987.

Keith Jewell has been picked to be the next president of St. Mary’s Health, an Evansville hospital that is part of Indianapolis-based St. Vincent Health. Jewell, currently chief operating officer of the Franciscan St. Francis Health hospital system in Indianapolis, will assume his new role in mid-December. An Evansville native, Jewell earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA at the University of Southern Indiana. He began his health care career at Evansville’s Deaconess Hospital. He joined Franciscan in 1993.

Dr. Jillian Erb, a family physician, recently joined Sheridan Family Medicine. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Indiana University in Bloomington and her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Company news

Faced with huge debt payments next year, San Francisco-based Genstar Capital is exploring a sale of Indianapolis-based Harlan Laboratories, the world’s second-biggest provider of lab animals. Genstar, which acquired Harlan in a leveraged buyout in 2005, faces long odds on refinancing $280 million in debt that comes due in July 2014. That’s because Harlan has experienced “double-digit revenue contraction” after sales reached $326 million in 2012, according to a report by Standard & Poor’s. Harlan has been losing ground in its contract research work, analysts say, because pharmaceutical companies have scaled back early-stage research. Harlan employs about 330 people in the Indianapolis area.

The state of Indiana will extend its high-risk insurance pool through the end of January to accommodate Hoosiers who have been unable to enroll in coverage through the federal marketplace, according to TheStatehouseFile.com. The Indiana Comprehensive Health Insurance Association–often called ICHIA–provides coverage for roughly 6,800 individuals with significant medical needs and costs the state about $6.3 million per month. The program was scheduled to shut down at the end of the year. The state created its high-risk insurance pool in 1982 to provide health care options for seriously ill Hoosiers who did not have access to coverage in the private market. Its users tend to have problems including cancer, hemophilia, HIV/AIDS or organ failure. Last spring, the General Assembly passed a law dissolving the program because the patients would become eligible to purchase coverage through the federal marketplace. But state officials now worry those patients won’t be able to sign up in time.

In an attempt to improve public health planning and efforts, researchers at IUPUI have received a $200,000 grant to study whether they can use electronic medical records to measure health outcomes by neighborhood or census block. The two-year study will try to establish a valid method for integrating data from the medical records with other community health indicators such as parks, health care facilities and grocery stores selling fresh produce. “When there is a limited budget for, say, preventing diabetes, the county health department has to determine how to spend its resources,” said Brian Dixon, an informatics professor and researcher at Indianapolis-based Regenstrief Institute Inc., who is leading the study. “One choice is to evenly divide the money across all communities within the county, some of which probably don’t have as much need as others. A second choice is to identify specific areas within the county that might need intervention the most.” The grant was awarded by the National Network of Public Health Institutes with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.