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Kimball Electronics plans to open new manufacturing facility in Indy, add 345 employees

May 28, 2025

Daniel Lee

Kimball plans to occupy 307,000 square feet in the 584,820-square-foot Commerce Center Building 1, which was constructed in 2023 on South Post Road.

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Indianapolis-based Prevounce Health on navigating tariff uncertainty

May 23, 2025

Susan Orr

The med-tech company sources its products from a Chinese manufacturer that is one of very few in the world capable of producing cellular-connected medical devices.

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Milton spares Florida factory that’s critical supplier of IV fluids

October 11, 2024 | Associated Press

B. Braun Medical’s manufacturing site and distribution center in Daytona Beach were not seriously impacted by the hurricane, said a company spokesperson. The center produces about a quarter of the country’s IV fluids.

Maker of temporary medical labs planning new hires, HQ move

December 5, 2022 |

Mason King

A private-equity investment announced in January is driving growth at Modular Devices Acquisition LLC, which manufactures and leases mobile and modular medical labs and cleanrooms.

Med-tech startup Prevounce, a newcomer to Indy, has big growth plans here

April 15, 2022 |

Susan Orr

Prevounce Health, which launched in 2019 in Los Angeles, relocated its operations to Indianapolis last fall and just landed $4.5 million in investment funding which the company says will help it expand and double its workforce in coming months.

Not-for-profit pushes into e-commerce space for sales to public

February 7, 2022 | Wes Mills, Inside INdiana Business

Through online sales, Bosma Enterprises will make its nitrile exam gloves available to individual medical practices and other healthcare offices.

Health equipment biz Apria moves HQ to Indy, lists stock with IPO

February 11, 2021 |

John Russell

Apria Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of home health equipment and services, began listing shares Thursday morning on the Nasdaq exchange.

Health and Human Services canceling ventilator contracts, says stockpile is full

September 2, 2020 | Associated Press

The Trump administration is canceling some of its remaining orders for ventilators, after rushing to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the spring. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement Tuesday affirming that the national stockpile has now reached its maximum capacity for the life-saving […]

High-tech rival devices on verge of making stethoscopes obsolete

October 23, 2019 | Associated Press

Dr. Paul Wallach, an executive associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, predicts that within the next decade, hand-held ultrasound devices will replace the stethoscope as part of the routine physical exam.

Feds charge two dozen in billion-dollar Medicare brace scam

April 10, 2019

Federal agents on Tuesday broke up a billion-dollar Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors.

Entrepreneur finds financial success with deep-tissue therapy

December 6, 2018

Entrepreneur Michael Arnolt teamed with an inventor more than 20 years ago to launch an enterprise that has sold thousands of steel therapy instruments and trained thousands of clinicians.

Firm that repairs ultrasound probes grows quickly

January 3, 2018

Fast-growing Fishers-based Probo Medical serves a niche within a niche: It repairs and refurbishes ultrasound equipment—more specifically, the probes for ultrasound systems.

Maker of opioid treatment planning Indy-area expansion

November 20, 2017

Innovative Health Solutions Inc. recently received FDA approval for a device that treats opioid withdrawal symptoms.

Device maker SonarMed ponders whether to go solo or find a partner

October 19, 2017

The Carmel-based company makes a device that uses sound waves to help position and monitor breathing tubes for newborns in hospitals.

Bellwether Cook blood-clot-filter case heads to trial

June 1, 2017

The first case against Bloomington-based Cook Group from patients who say the company’s blood-clot filters malfunctioned is headed for trial this fall in Indianapolis.

GOP president, Congress could dump medical-device tax

February 2, 2017

For years, medical-device makers in Indiana and around the nation have insisted that the 2.3 percent tax on sales to help fund the Affordable Care Act has hurt business and slowed innovation.

Indy-based NICO works for acceptance of less invasive brain surgery tools

October 19, 2016 |

John Russell

Currently, only about 2-4 percent of U.S. brain surgeries for tumors, strokes and other abnormalities are done with NICO’s low-invasive approach.

Carmel-based Stratice aims to be Amazon of health care

January 14, 2016

Carmel-based Stratice Healthcare LLC wants to take the concept of electronic prescribing for drugs and extend it to most of the rest of the health care system.

Revenue has nearly tripled in past two years for blood-test maker

November 26, 2014

PTS Diagnostics engineered an about-face on its business plan five years ago, ditching its retail strategy to focus on serving physicians and nurse practitioners. This year, PTS is on pace to record revenue of nearly $50 million, up from $17 million two years ago.

Zimmer profit beats forecasts, shares rise 4 percent

October 23, 2014

Shares of Warsaw-based orthopedic device maker Zimmer Holdings Inc. have doubled the performance of the S&P 500 so far this year.

Hendricks County pitching motorsports skill, expertise to medical manufacturers

August 13, 2014

Hendricks County finds pay dirt pitching skills of racing industry to medical device manufacturers.

Zimmer-Biomet deal could stanch their bleeding at hospitals

May 5, 2014

Hospitals, which have forced orthopedic implant makers to lower their prices in recent years, may have a harder time doing so when the combined Zimmer-Biomet controls nearly 40 percent of the market.

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