Health Care

As registered nurse Janet Mapes wrapped the lower half of Paul Cleary's left leg in gauze, she...

Partners HealthCare and Fallon Community Health Plan (FCHP) announced an agreement that will give FCHP members full access to Partners HealthCare hospitals and their physicians.

Robotic-assisted surgery has come to Milford Regional Medical Center now that the hospital has introduced a system that can perform minimally invasive options for complex procedures, the medical center said.

Gardner-based Precision Optics Corp. increased its sales in the second quarter by 1 percent, but its losses nearly doubled due to several settlements with investors, it reported this week.

The state's Department of Public Health (DPH) will hold the first of three listening sessions on medical marijuana regulation today at the Worcester Public Library.

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.