By Mark Baard The UMass Memorial Medical Center is striking: Its high-rise hospital building, helipad, and sprawling medical school campus tower over Worcester’s Lake Quinsigamond. It’s a monument to Massachusetts’ role as a healthcare leader and symbolizes an industry known for its miracle-making – and its out-of-control costs. But behind UMass Memorial’s bricks and mortar, […]

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PRNewswire http://www.foxbusiness.com Highmark Inc. announced today that it is contributing $29 million to help physicians acquire ePrescribing/eHealth Record technology for their practices. This initiative is an alternative to a similar program Highmark announced in 2005 in which the company contributed significant funding to promote the adoption of health information technology by physicians. Highmark contributed the […]

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J. James Rohack, M.D. http://online.wsj.com Joseph Nixon’s Cross Country column “Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas” (May 17) hit the nail on the head: Medical liability reforms, including a cap on non-economic damages, work. Therefore, if we know how to keep physicians in patient care instead of tied up in the courts, why hasn’t every […]