Securing its reputation as an early adopter of advanced healthcare technology, Major Health Partners (MHP) is deploying a full-scale electronic health records (EHR) system for all of its physician practice groups. MHP is well ahead of federal requirements and the deployment attracted attention from Inside Indiana Business and the Shelbyville News.
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Expecting to create about 35 new high-impact jobs, URS corporation is adding 17,000 sq. ft. of laboratory, office and specialized space to its existing facility in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park.
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“Unnecessary and possibly even dangerous” is how Smithville in Indiana describes the new proposed FCC rules for the Internet. How is the FCC threatening real “net neutrality”?
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How can you achieve a culture that delivers on business goals? Companies with well-thought-through "sticky ideas" are going to win in 2010. "Sticky ideas" motivate.
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2009 will probably be regarded as the year when the WestGate reached its strategic ‘tipping point,’ says Purdue Vice Provost.
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Creating jobs, attracting investment and putting people back to work. EDA Chief Brian McGowan explains how to achieve all three.
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In honor of its late chairman and co-founder Gus Watanabe, MD, Marcadia Biotech made the lead gift to establish the world-class Watanabe Biotechnology Lecture Series at Indiana University.
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Home to more than 10 major national commercial defense companies, the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park plans to expand with new facilities to meet growing demand. MEK has been tasked to develop the park’s first national marketing campaign, which will begin in Defense News.
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The MEK Group joined forces with other established defense industry professionals to produce PursuitCAT, an online contract analysis tool for business development within commercial defense companies and universities.
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Most welcome news is starting to arrive. Believable reports of abating economic turmoil increase daily, accompanied by fresh intelligence that the crushing global recession is nearing its long-awaited end. As Indiana commences on recovery over the coming months, we all need to refocus our efforts to accelerate recovery and replace lost jobs.
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Smithville - Indiana's largest independent telecom company - has been selected by Broadband Properties Magazine as one of the nation's Top 100 Broadband Companies for 2009 and an upcoming leader in fiber to the home (FTTH). The south-central Indiana-based company joins national communications giants AT&T, Motorola, Verizon and others in the select national honor.
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A novel pharmacological treatment demonstrated significant weight loss in animal models of obesity according to a scientific paper to be published in the October issue of Nature Chemical Biology. The paper, co-authored by researchers Richard DiMarchi, Ph.D. (Indiana University), Matthias Tschöp, M.D. (University of Cincinnati) and colleagues, chronicles work with novel peptides under development at Marcadia Biotech that have generated a significant weight loss effect and reduction of fat mass in rodent models of obesity after once-weekly administration.
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Featuring state-of-the-art technology, “green” energy efficiency facilities and top surgeons and professional medical staff, the ReNovo Orthopaedic Center opened on July 13. MEK developed the integrated brand and online strategy for the Center, including a statewide launch. The Center is expected to attract new patients desiring a uniquely high quality of professional orthopedic care delivered with a holistic approach. [Read More...]

Promoting clinical healing through stress relief and emotional and spiritual aid can be achieved in a supportive environment. Drawing on medical research, the 40,500 sq. ft Benesse Healing Gardens for Major Hospital is designed to achieve that critical goal. Thought to be the largest such garden in central Indiana, the $600,000 facility is now open for cancer patients and supporters next to the Benesse Oncology Center in southeast Indiana. [Read More...]

Can Indiana truly diversify its traditional manufacturing market and create a vibrant knowledge-based economic sector that creates real growth and wealth? As the Indiana General Assembly enters its critical budget determinations, legislators will have a direct say and no small measure of accountability about how this question will be answered in the months and years ahead. [Read More...]

Rural communities everywhere have rarely been first to receive new technology upgrades of any kind. Many of Indiana’s rural communities are no different, struggling today to upgrade to a broadband system that can support sustained economic development and a higher quality of life. Smithville, Indiana’s largest privately held telecommunications company, has set out to change that and today announced the completion of the first segment of a more than $100 million Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) overbuild for all of its residential customers in Indiana. [Read More...]

Focused on growing its $17 million defense contract base, Raydar & Associates added 10 new positions in 2009 to its 220 employee group and is preparing for expansion in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park, according to Mark Roberts, CEO.
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Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman devoted her weekly e-news update to the dramatic expansion of the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park and the economic growth of the $2 billion NSWC/NSA federal laboratory and technology facility in southern Indiana. The Lt. Gov. and Congressman Brad Ellsworth spoke at the recent opening of a new enterprise facility for SAIC in late March. Continuing its in-depth public affairs involvement since 2003, MEK handled statewide media and community relations. [Read More...]

As one newspaper reporter recently said, “Hospital rankings are mostly beauty contests.” But when MEK showed media officials how the patients themselves had ranked Major Hospital in Shelbyville, Indiana, interest peaked. Major Hospital, a small community hospital located near SW Indianapolis, was named one of America’s Top 100 Hospitals while simultaneously ranked in the top 2% of hospitals nationwide (for inpatient satisfaction) by Press Ganey, which attracted high attention from the Indianapolis Business Journal. [Read More...]

Fortune 500 company Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] will officially open a new facility in the WestGate@Crane Technology Park this week. The facility will house approximately 200 new employees for SAIC’s Indiana operations, which has grown from 120 employees in 2001 to approximately 1000 employees in 2009. [Read More...]

Patients of Major Hospital gave the regional healthcare facility top marks for inpatient satisfaction, according to data collected and analyzed by Press Ganey, a national healthcare consulting firm. [Read More...]

The Major Hospital Board of Directors announced today that Jack Horner has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Major Hospital, effective immediately. “Jack has demonstrated innovative and insightful leadership for many years at Major Hospital in a number of executive positions, and the board saw solid performance during his tenure as interim CEO,” explained Gene Jones, President of the Board, in announcing the Board’s decision. [Read More...]

In an effort to procure federal stimulus money, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners hired a consulting firm Monday night to guide the commissioners through the red tape. [Read More...]

Highlighting expected changes and opportunities in the Obama Administration, Jason Lovell, director of the Indiana Office of Defense Development, and Michael Snyder, MEK Group Managing Principal, teamed up to discuss global funding and policy challenges at the third annual ATAIN/Purdue Aerospace and Space Science Conference. To read what they presented to engineers, academic researchers and technology professionals, click on a PDF to download. [Read More...]

Smithville Digital, affiliate of Smithville Telephone, Indiana’s largest independent telecommunications company, today announced a partnership with Bloomington Hospital to provide gigabit fiber optic connectivity to the hospital and its outlying affiliate medical operations in Southern Indiana. The fiber connectivity will increase rural telehealth capabilities and provide patients with more convenient access to care. [Read More...]

Smithville Digital, affiliate of Smithville Telephone, Indiana’s largest telecommunications company, will provide seven companies locating in the WestGate @ Crane Technology Park with high-speed fiber optic broadband. As the fiber broadband provider for the rapidly expanding technology park in south central Indiana, Smithville’s dedication to providing the park with gigabit connectivity has become an important selling point for local economic development officials looking to attract high-tech defense contractors to the park. [Read More...]