Massachusetts news and information

What it does: Beacon Partners provides advisory services to clients planning and implementing healthcare information technology.
FULL STORY »

Elizabeth D'Alesio has 10 new patients. She prescribes their medications, orders their labs, performs diagnostic testing and provides wellness advice. But D'Alesio isn't a doctor. She's a nurse practitioner who, thanks to a law passed last year, was allowed to open her own practice in Hopedale,...
FULL STORY »

Eric Beyer, president and CEO of Tufts Medical Center in Boston, resigned Thursday.
FULL STORY »

A new report finds that Massachusetts continues to experience a critical shortage of primary-care physicians and geographical disparities in the hiring and retention of doctors.
FULL STORY »

The new nine-story ambulatory-care center is part of a master plan to transform the south end of the Boston Medical Center campus by improving pedestrian access and replacing BMC's old maternity building from the 1920s. The Shapiro Center's terracotta exterior provides contrast to the traditional...
FULL STORY »

Massachusetts insurer Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and two New Hampshire health systems reached an agreement to market a narrow-network health plan to employers. Harvard Pilgrim and the two health systems will share financial risk.
FULL STORY »

At least 15 people may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from neurosurgery instruments used on a patient suspected to have died from the rare brain disorder at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said that five patients who underwent...
FULL STORY »

The state is still reeling a year after a scandal at a drug lab threw the legal system into turmoil: More than 330 prison inmates have been released from custody and at least 1,100 cases have been dismissed or not prosecuted because of tainted evidence and other fallout from the facility's closure.
FULL STORY »

Steward Health Care System continues to lose money on its hospitals more than two years after the company was created by a private equity firm to take over Caritas Christi Health Care.
FULL STORY »

As accountable care organizations proliferate, a new study suggests that overall health spending may slow when hospitals and medical groups agree to the new payment model with even one insurer. That's good news for proponents of accountable care, who hope to see a change in healthcare financing...
FULL STORY »