Health Care

Westborough-based eClinicalWorks, a health care IT company that designs electronic ambulatory clinical systems, said it has launched a $25 million effort to improve patients' engagement with their doctors.

UMass Memorial Health Care has named UMass insider Dr. Eric W. Dickson as its new president and CEO.<br> The 46-year-old Dickson will succeed John O'Brien, who has been at the helm of Central Massachusetts' largest employer for the past decade. O'Brien will step down Feb. 25. Dickson is president of UMass Memorial Medical Group, a subsidiary of the health care system. That has 1,060 physicians and 2,200 other employees, as well as revenue of more than $460 million. The Princeton resident is also a senior associate dean at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is a professor of emergency medicine. In addition, Dickson is a practicing emergency department physician at UMass Memorial Medical Center and a faculty member at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge.

Westborough-based electronic health records and practice management firm eClinicalWorks announced it has expanded its role with Holyoke Medical Center and will help the hospital achieve its goals as an accountable care organization (ACO).

A chain of for-profit sleep clinics has closed all its locations, including two in Worcester and Framingham, after 15 years in business.

Dr. Armin Ernst, an executive with Steward Health Care, will become president and CEO of Reliant Medical Group, succeeding the retiring Jack Dutzar, the Worcester-based medical provider announced today.

Reliant Medical Group is significantly expanding its pharmacy operations in the coming weeks, when it will open 10 pharmacies at several locations throughout Central Massachusetts.

Harrington HealthCare System, which operates Harrington Hospital in Southbridge and Harrington HealthCare at Hubbard in Webster, is expanding its territory into Spencer, it announced.

Quest Diagnostics has completed its previously-announced purchase of UMass Memorial Medical Center's clinical outreach laboratory business, the...

UMass Memorial Health Care Inc. (UMMHC), the largest employer in Central Massachusetts, has its investment portfolio to thank for an improved fiscal 2012, which ended Sept. 30.

The largest nurse’s union in Massachusetts says it opposes hospital policies that require staff who have not...