When it comes time to celebrate African-American History month, wouldn’t we be better served with profiles of young, living role models we can talk to—heroes who can talk to us? Let me submit for your consideration Mercy Obeime.
Radio frequency identification—better known as RFID—is making its way to trade shows and conventions, providing a plethora of information about attendees.
Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all
information and records on a patient in one viewing program.
Welcome to the convention of the future. Salespeople you’ve never met will approach you with an uncanny, maybe even unnerving, familiarity and strike up conversations eerily close to your thoughts. Signs and data centers will flash messages tailored to your interests, guiding you to displays, meetings, and products ro and services. You won’t need cash […]
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a New York probe into how the health insurer reimbursed customers for out-of-network services. WellPoint also agreed to stop using the Ingenix database of reimbursement rates that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has called “defective and manipulated.” “WellPoint acknowledges the conflicts of interest in […]
Indianapolis-based WellPoint Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a New York probe into how the health insurer reimbursed customers for out-of-network services. WellPoint also agreed to stop using the Ingenix database of reimbursement rates that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has called “defective and manipulated.” “WellPoint acknowledges the conflicts of interest […]
Call it Expedia for hospital systems. Community Health Network has spent three years developing a computer interface that allows doctors and nurses to view all information and records on a patient in one viewing program. Community calls it a virtual single patient record, or vSPR. It works in the same way Expedia pulls together the […]
“Group think,” a powerful and controlling force, was present as the Capital Improvement Board built Lucas Oil Stadium and Eli Lilly and Co. developed and marketed Zyprexa.
Three of the world’s largest drugmakers, including Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co., are being accused of fixing prices for erectile dysfunction drugs in Switzerland, according to Bloomberg News. Lilly, Pfizer Inc. and Bayer AG, rivals in the male impotence-drug market, fixed prices in Switzerland and should be punished, a panel of the Swiss Competition Commission, […]
Two drug companies, Pfizer Inc. and Eli Lilly and Co., spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions – including whether it’s a real disease at all. Key components of the industry-funded buzz over […]
Indiana Medicaid officials want to take over management of all its patients’ prescription drugs because they say it could save the state as much as $40 million a year.
The bill in question seems like a long shot. It would abdicate government’s responsibility for protecting citizens’ health
and safety, and place it in the hands of individual business owners.
Federal health regulators are looking into evidence that an Eli Lilly and Co. drug used to treat blood poisoning worsens the risk of bleeding and can lead to death in certain patients. The Food and Drug Administration said today a recently published study showed that the Indianapolis-based company’s drug Xigris increased the risk of dangerous […]
Patients are seeking help with their doctors, records and referrals as the health care system grows increasingly complex.
Physicians and insurance companies have entered their fourth year of haggling over insurance payments, and each side is claiming
to best represent patients.
The term “pancreatic cancer” gets my attention. That’s because two years ago, my wife and I were shaken to the depths of our souls by the thought that she might have it. A year of her “just not feeling well” led to a battery of diagnostic tests and x-rays that fi nally revealed she did, […]
On the same day last week, Eli Lilly and Co. cleared a big hurdle regarding its bestselling drug Zyprexa and immediately found itself facing another one. Lilly paid dearly – $1.42 billion – for pleading guilty to improperly marketing the antipsychotic Zyprexa between 1999 and 2001 and to settle lawsuits filed by states. But that […]
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s growing market dominance in Indiana is sparking a backlash from doctors who plan to push
a bill this year in the Indiana General Assembly that would allow physicians to reject patients covered by massive health
insurer.
I’m here to plead with all men and the people who love them: Don’t be lazy like I was about getting annual PSA checks
and physical exams.
St. Francis Hospital-Mooresville is seeing higher-than-projected use of a newly added emergency department that has firmed
up its status as a full-service hospital.
