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Indiana playing trailblazing role in drive to tailor pharmaceuticals to genetic makeup of individuals
Indiana is becoming not only a hotbed of “pharmacogenomics” research, but also a trailblazer in finding practical ways to
use it on the practitioner level.
Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance offers flexible work schedule, lactation room for nursing mothers
About 70 percent of Farm Bureau’s staff is female, and the company provides benefits and services designed…
Doctors should adapt to ratings
Rating doctors via online services helps consumers make better health care decisions.
Conseco’s Prieur, others suffering steep losses on purchase of shares
Conseco CEO Jim Prieur keeps putting his money where his mouth is, purchasing more than a half-million shares of his company’s stock over two years.
Doc sues Web-savvy ex-patient
Dr. Barry Eppley, an Indianapolis surgeon, says an online crusade by a disgruntled former patient is taking a toll on his
practice, and he’s suing her.
What computer problems? Customers still laud Anthem
Despite a year when it made doctors around the state boil with frustration, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield still outscored most of its peers in a customer satisfaction rating.
Anthem gift will sponsor resource guide for seniors
Thanks to a $45,390 grant from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield,
the Central Indiana Council on Aging will offer seniors more information and support via its Web site.
General Assembly pushes statewide trauma system
Indiana lawmakers are considering legislation to create a network that would coordinate hospital trauma programs and bring
the centers to underserved cities and rural areas.
Doctors squirm as patients rate health care
As health care slowly shifts to operate more like retail stores, patients’ opinions of doctors have become commonplace on more than 30 physician-rating Web sites, including a subscription service run by Indianapolis-based Angie’s List.
Indiana among first states targeted by expanded program to root out coding, billing problems
Modern-day bounty hunters are preparing to fan out across Indiana as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expands a program to ferret out fraud and overpayment in the health care system.
State insurance program containing health costs
Doug Stratton, executive director of the Indiana Comprehensive Health Insurance Association, slashes costs, pushes disease
control to keep prices as low as possible.
Beware universal health care
Any administration considering a tax-funded universal health care system that is free at the point of delivery would do well to examine Britain’s National Health Service.
New Community CEO weighs in on system’s future, universal care
IBJ reporter J.K. Wall asked Bryan A. Mills about his new job as Community Health Networks next CEO.
Little Red Door experiences second recent change in leadership
Little Red Door cancer agency is conducting its second search for an executive director in six months, since Mary Beth Tuohy resigned in March.
Clarian ads win major award
Indianapolis ad firm The Heavyweights and its local client Clarian Health have won one of the ad industry’s biggest awards
for one component of Clarian’s “A Call to Change” campaign.
In spite of criticism, Lilly saves lives
My wife, Becky, is alive today because of Lilly and its trial drug Enzastaurin, a great surgeon, and a terrific team of local doctors.
Benefits mergers on the increase
Benefits brokers and agents—facing increasing demands from employers and declining commissions—are merging at an
accelerating
pace.
Education, health still key issues
The people of Indiana need to work to improve education, the overall health of our work force, and productivity and innovation.
Study: Smoke-free policies aren’t an economic drag
A team of Indiana University health researchers has concluded that smoke-free-workplace laws do not have a negative economic impact.