Health Care

The CEO of Central Massachusetts' largest health-care provider says government and business need to come together to push down rising health insurance costs.

Waltham-based Walden Behavioral Care, a treatment center specializing in eating disorders, will press on with plans to build a new treatment center at the former Marist Retreat Center on Pleasant Street in Framingham under its nonprofit education arm, the Walden Center for Education and Research Inc. The Walden Center said in a statement it obtained Dover Amendment protection from Framingham Building Commissioner Michael Tusino, which, under Massachusetts General Laws, grants use for educational purposes in any local zoning district, subject to a limited site plan review by the local planning board.

UMass Memorial Medical Center has been tapped as one of 32 medical centers worldwide to look at ways to improve costs and outcomes associated with total joint replacement.

For the second time in less than three months, UMass Memorial Health Care has received a credit downgrade by Moody's Investors Service. Moody's cited ongoing challenges in UMass's core operations, including declining admission volumes and “constrained” revenue growth, as reasons for the downgrade.

When Massachusetts passed its health care cost-containment law in 2012, policymakers acted under the logic that medical care should be treated like any other product, with customers able to shop around for the very best deal.

Large hospitals and health care systems in Massachusetts and beyond are exploring potential mergers with the intent to save money, but will smaller hospitals in Central Massachusetts follow that trend?

Hospitals are putting themselves and their growing volumes of data at risk by continuing to rely on outdated and inefficient practices to back up and archive information, according to a study by a trade group of technology professionals within the health care industry.

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The Massachusetts health care industry has entered an era of uncharted territory, now that the state can force providers to spend tens of thousands of their own money on information technology infrastructure to help them share patient records more easily.

With a federal extension now in place protecting existing health care coverage for 155,000 residents, officials tasked with fixing the state's much-maligned enrollment website are turning their attention to clearing the backlog of applications that must be processed manually to enroll new and existing subscribers in plans that comply with the Affordable Care Act.