Indiana news and information

The Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis has named Titus Schleyer to be its new director, effective June 1.
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This May, Franciscan Physicians Hospital in Munster will be the last of the Franciscan Alliance hospitals in the Northern Indiana region to "go live" with an electronic health-records system, said Marie Anaya-Santiago, regional director of health information management for Franciscan.
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A new report says the state of Illinois still owes the federal government more than $140 million for overpaying a Chicago academic medical center that didn't provide as much free and discounted care to the poor as it claimed more than a decade ago.
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WellPoint says it will raise the quarterly dividend it pays shareholders by 30%. The announcement comes about week after its stock started slipping after it named a new CEO.
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Indiana leaders are gearing up for a new battle with Washington over how to expand Medicaid and comply with the federal healthcare law.
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The Obama administration and healthcare reform advocates celebrated after a number of Republican-run states decided to expand Medicaid. Their celebrations may have been premature, however.The problem? Some of those expansions may run into opposition from the CMS.
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A pair of Indiana University computer scientists set out to devise a computer-based, artificial intelligence system that could “think like a doctor.” But what they created may be even better, producing a system that could outperform physicians in making care decisions over time.
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The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited.
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Dr. Mark Smith, founding president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation, will step down at the end of the year. Smith, 61, will continue as a clinical faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco and practicing at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Health...
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Jonathan Black has been named COO and Paul Worland has been named president of operations at Press Ganey Associates, a patient-satisfaction survey and quality-improvement consulting firm based in South Bend, Ind., the company has announced.
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