Partners HealthCare

Managed Healthcare Executive | October 29, 2019

Partners HealthCare announces the creation of two new investment funds aimed at addressing the lack of translational funding in pre-clinical life sciences, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and digital technology development. The funds will support ventures that develop new drugs and technologies based on inventions originating from Partners researchers and investigators as well as companies that will work with Partners institutions to develop digital solutions. “These funds are a ...

Golocalprov | May 13, 2019

A video of a top Partners HealthCare executive captures him saying that the company’s near monopolistic model allows them to force higher prices via by forcing higher reimbursement from insurance companies.Partners HealthCare is in the process of buying Care New England owners of three of Rhode Island’s hospitals Women & Infants, Kent, and Butler Hospitals.the payments we get from insurers are higher than the average payments that go to other hospitals and physician groups in thi...

Revcycleintelligence | June 06, 2019

Massachusetts based partners healthcare is backing out of a hospital merger deal with care new england (cne) after rhode island’s governor called for a more local solution. in a statement on her website, governor gina raimondo announced that providence, ri-based cne will reopen hospital merger negotiations with lifespan and brown university despite signing a definitive agreement to merge with partners in january 2018. over the past several months i have increasingly heard fro...

EHRIntelligence | January 16, 2020

Eighty-four percent of EHR users are dissatisfied with the technical service and basic software account support from current EHR and HIT vendors, according to a 2020 Black Book Research survey. Since the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, EHRs have not only been more prevalent, but they have continued to change and evolve. However, technical service from EHR vendors hasn’t kept up with the constant change, according to high-level hospital tech managers. Healthcare software support is ...