When it comes to keeping smiles on the faces of Ohio’s medical industry leaders, Governor-elect John Kasich’s predecessor did him a big favor. It’s called Ohio Third Frontier.

A group of Northeast Ohio business leaders and elected officials objects to a TV ad from Gov. Ted Strickland that they say casts Invacare Corp. in a negative light for outsourcing jobs.

Home medical products maker Invacare Corp. (NYSE: IVC) has taken center stage in Ohio’s gubernatorial election, thanks to a TV ad from Gov. Ted Strickland that criticizes the outsourcing of Ohio jobs.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland signed a bill that would establish 44 patient-centered medical homes in a statewide pilot project.The medical homes bill was the rare legislation that met overwhelming approval from both parties — it passed both the Republican-controlled Senate and Democrat-controlled House of Representatives unanimously.In a medical home, patients are cared for by a [...]

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland visited the Cleveland area Thursday morning to make an 11th-hour pitch for Issue 1 — the $700 million bond issue that would extend the Ohio Third Frontier program by four years if approved by voters on May 4.Third Frontier is the $1.35 billion, 10-year effort to rekindle Ohio’s economy by investing [...]

Updated 3:16 p.m.Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland signed an executive order Friday morning creating the Ohio Prescription Drug Task Force–a group that will include doctors and pharmacists from which he hopes to begin getting answers in six weeks on how to manage the state’s growing problem.var page_count = “off”; [...]

The nonprofit, state-sponsored group that has been charged with promoting electronic health records adoption in Ohio has received a $43 million federal grant. The grant to the Ohio Health Information Partnership comes from last year’s federal stimulus act and is part of $1 billion in recently announced federal funding for health information technology.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland did not mention the terms “biomedical” or “health care” in his State of the State address at noon today. However, Strickland did announce several business investment, research and worker-training programs that could help companies in these industries grow and create jobs.

A Franklin County judge has ruled that $230 million in tobacco settlement money is off-limits to help create bioscience jobs in Ohio — at least for the moment, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland wants 110,000 fewer uninsured Ohioans by 2011. Nearly half of the state’s planned reduction of the uninsured relies on capping the costs of open enrollment and getting Ohioans who purchase their own insurance an average of 5.5 percent more.