by Cleveland Dietz | May 8, 2025 | Data, News, Policy, Reports
The Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy at Indiana University is pleased to share its interim report to the Indiana Department of Health covering activities from July 2024 through January 2025.
This report provides an overview of the Center’s efforts to support data-driven health workforce planning and policy across Indiana and highlights ongoing initiatives which focus on health workforce data collection, analysis, and stakeholder collaboration. The report also reflects the Center’s continued commitment to producing actionable insights and engaging key partners to inform health workforce development and decision-making.
Through its work, the Bowen Center aims to ensure that Indiana’s health workforce is aligned with the needs of communities statewide. This interim report is intended to provide transparency on progress to date. We invite you to review the full report below to learn more.
by Cleveland Dietz | Apr 23, 2025 | Data, Policy, Presentations
The physician workforce is critical in ensuring access to health care across Indiana. In a presentation to the Indiana Society of Physician Recruiters, Bowen Center Director Dr. Hannah Maxey will present an overview of the state’s physician workforce’s current status and future outlook.
The presentation will include an overview of the latest Indiana physician workforce data including a description of total supply, geographic distribution and primary practice setting. In addition to this supply data, Dr. Maxey will present demand data from Indiana Department of Workforce Development and educational data from the recent Indiana Physician Pipeline to Practice report. Additional topics will include physician wellness and burnout, artificial intelligence, and highlights from the 2025 Legislative Session.
Check out the full slide deck below!
by Cleveland Dietz | Apr 2, 2025 | Data, Reports
The latest Indiana Nursing (RN and APRN) Workforce Data Report offers a comprehensive overview of Indiana’s RNs and APRNs. It covers demographics, education, employment characteristics, and geographic distribution and provides important insights into the current state of Indiana’s nursing workforce to help inform policy and workforce planning. Read and download the full report below.
by Zachary Ammerman | Mar 27, 2025 | Data
The Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy has released its latest data snapshots detailing Indiana’s physician workforce characteristics as of the 2023 license renewal process.
The three new reports cover:
- All Actively Practicing Physicians – With 18,586 physicians statewide, the data reveals that 61.3% of physicians reported practicing in specialties outside primary care, while 34.5% reported a focus on primary care and 4.2% on psychiatry. 61.8% of physicians reported providing telemedicine services.
- Primary Care Physicians – Indiana has 6,420 primary care physicians, with Family/General Medicine (47.1%) and Internal Medicine (31%) representing the largest specialties, as self-reported by Indiana primary care physicians. Over 71% reported providing telemedicine services, and nearly 23% reported offering addiction services.
- Psychiatrists – The state has 782 actively practicing psychiatrists, with 90.5% reporting a specialty of general psychiatry and 9.5% in child psychiatry. Notably, 31 counties report no psychiatrist FTEs, highlighting significant disparities in mental healthcare access across Indiana.
Each snapshot includes a detailed map of geographic distribution, showing both the number of each type of physician in each county, the per capita figures, and a histogram showing country distribution. Marion, Lake, Allen, and Hamilton counties showing the highest concentration of physicians, while rural counties like Benton and Carroll face major shortages.
Does Indiana physician health workforce data pique your interest? Take a deep dive into Indiana’s 2023 Physician Workforce Data Report, complete with interactive data and charts galore at this link.
Check out each of the snapshots directly below or download the documents using the links in the text above.
All Indiana Physicians Workforce Snapshot
Primary Care Physician Workforce Snapshot
Psychiatrist Workforce Snapshot:
by Zachary Ammerman | Feb 18, 2025 | Data, Policy
Retention of medical students and residents is crucial to ensuring a strong physician workforce. This report examines retention within Indiana’s medical education pipeline between 2019 and 2024, challenges faced by residency program directors, trends in physician workforce capacity at Indiana hospitals, and existing initiatives supporting medical education and training in Indiana.
This work was completed in collaboration with the Indiana Department of Health. It is our hope that this report can inform discussions and policies targeting medical education in Indiana.
Read and download the project summary report below or find the full report here.
by Zachary Ammerman | Feb 4, 2025 | Data, Presentations
The Bowen Center’s Assistant Director for Data and Research Sierra Vaughn recently spoke in a panel of experts on the intersection of addiction and policy. This was part of a webinar titled Reflections and Insight on Response to a Public Health Crisis: The Addictions Grand Challenge.
In her section of the panel she briefly outlined the various aspects of Bowen’s data-related work that intersects with addiction, addiction counseling, and behavioral health, providing a quick overview of the data landscape in Indiana on this critically important topic. The entire presentation is worth a watch, featuring contributions from several experts in the field.
Click here to watch the webinar on an external site (this link is timestamped to Sierra’s contribution).
Or you can watch the entire webinar below. (Sierra’s section begins at around the 26:33 minute mark).
