Artificial intelligence (AI) will be the talk of the town when over 1,500 health care stakeholders—clinicians, industry executives, researchers, investors, and policymakers—gather in Boston next week at the 2018 World Medical Innovation Forum, hosted by Partners HealthCare.

​To those untrained in neuroscience’s inner workings, the blood-brain barrier is not a well-known feature of the brain’s anatomy. To Brigham and Women’s Hospital researcher Choi-Fong Cho, PhD, however, it is the center around which her laboratory revolves.

From industry consolidation to disruptive technology, a range of pressing health care topics were central to the conversation at the Boston Business Journal's Power Breakfast on February 15. Partners HealthCare President and CEO David Torchiana, MD, was one of four health care leaders participating in the panel discussion.​

For decades, health care reform in Washington, DC has been mired in partisan politics, often limiting policymakers' ability to enact solutions that enhance quality and access. A new effort aims to break the gridlock and deliver affordable, quality care-and Partners HealthCare has a seat at the table.

In the past century, medical advances have added 25 years to our lifespan, and yet, Partners Vice President for Connected Health Joseph Kvedar, MD, notes that we have not done enough to ensure individuals are living vibrant, productive, healthy lives as we age.

As highlighted in posts on this blog, Partners HealthCare is committed to advancing diversity and inclusion, across our organization and in our communities. Now, with a newly launched initiative led by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, we join nine other organizations committed to expanding economic opportunity for minority-owned businesses.

As the Commonwealth’s largest employer with over 73,000 employees, Partners HealthCare has committed to expanding and supporting diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We recognize that this goal is of utmost importance, which is why we are striving to raise awareness of current challenges and share strategies for success.

For one Massachusetts General Hospital researcher, the crusade to help adolescents with anxiety and depression find hope is matched in significance only by a determination to help give women a rightful place at the bench in STEM research fields.

Every day, doctors and clinicians pursue innovations to improve patient care. These ideas often involve mining patient data to determine the best course of treatment or to proactively avoid symptoms and negative reactions altogether. However, these clinicians often find that this data is siloed across systems, which prevents them from accessing it.

As previously reported by news outlets and in this blog, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is committed to a merger with Partners HealthCare, a move aimed at preserving and enhancing the hospital’s long legacy of specialty care.

Technological advances have revolutionized the way we approach care for a host of conditions. What if innovation could also revolutionize perhaps the most essential element of health care delivery: the sterile environment?

Is the Senate health care bill the right prescription for the right condition? Two opinion pieces in this morning's Boston Herald identify ways in which the Senate’s "cure" misdiagnoses the health care challenges we face—with unintended side effects.

As we reach the end of Breast Cancer Awareness month, "go pink" campaigns have underscored the importance of early detection. At Partners HealthCare, we maintain that the benefits of mammography are substantial—it can catch more cancers at early stages than other screening, and thus save lives.

On October 23rd, the Massachusetts State Senate held a hearing at the State House to weigh the pros and cons of a new health care bill it is considering. A major component of the proposal would set a new target for hospital spending.

What is the outcome when more than 185 clinical colleagues gather for a day of networking in Partners' new Assembly Row building? According to the physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who attended Partners Clinicians Day on Sept. 16, insight and inspiration were just the beginning of the takeaways.

Today, Kate Walsh, president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, and our own Dr. David Torchiana, delivered a full-throated editorial in support of the Boston health care community’s commitment to fighting the clear and growing threat of climate change.

As the state seeks to overhaul its Medicaid program, MassHealth, with the most ambitious redesign in more than 20 years, it has chosen no less than 18 provider groups to help launch the effort in January 2018, including Partners HealthCare.

Just this past month, Partners HealthCare CEO David Torchiana, MD, and Dr. Jeffrey Leiden, the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, co-authored a Boston Globe op-ed reiterating the vital importance of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding to the local biomedical community.

We believe artificial intelligence (AI) will be an inevitable part of health care in the future, and this week we’ve taken steps to partner with our new Boston neighbor, GE Healthcare, to ensure that we remain at the forefront of discovery and innovation in this space.

The Care New England Health System of Providence, Rhode Island (CNE) has announced its intent to join Partners HealthCare. Pending regulatory approval, the decision would mark a culmination of a collaborative cardiovascular and surgical relationship that began at Brigham and Women’s Hospital back in 2009.

This year Partners was proud to host the first World Neuroscience Innovation Forum at the Francis Crick Institute in London. The March 27 event saw experts from the U.S. and Europe convene to battle Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, and other neurodegenerative diseases that afflict one in six people around the world.

Under the mantra “Zero Stigma. Zero Deaths,” respected leaders from throughout Massachusetts gathered today to launch a statewide private-sector initiative that will battle the ravaging effects of opioid addiction.

Healthcare transformation has upped the ante in regards to the maintenance of healthcare provider competency.

Today Massachusetts Eye and Ear (MEE) is taking its first steps toward becoming a member of the Partners HealthCare system.

For the first time ever, a New Hampshire hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, is now part of the Mass General Hospital (MGH) family and a member of the Partners HealthCare sytem.

Our most popular Connect with Partners post from 2016 was actually a package of three articles that we called “Partners HealthCare Facts.” In this series, we focused on the following three stories, each of which gave a glimpse into the Partners network and its role within the larger health care landscape. The People Who Are Par...

We’re proud of all of our award-winning hospitals, and it seems as though our readers are as well. Taking the number two spot on our top 3 list of the most popular Connect with Partners posts of 2016 is coverage of Massachusetts General Hospital winning the prestigious Foster McGaw Prize for Excellence in Community Service.

It’s a sobering fact that many Americans, from all walks of life, will at some point in their lives experience the impact of mental illness and its surrounding stigma. However, it’s important to remember that this stigma can also motivate us to create a sense of community that helps address the illness and stigma head-on.

Partners HealthCare, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital are joining a nationwide research effort to “crowd source” medical information from no less than 1 million individuals as part of an effort to better understand disease and its cures.

This week, the state turns its eye toward the complex issue of price variation. A diverse group of stakeholders has been appointed to examine the issue and debate what -- if any -- changes need to be made in the way that different health care providers get paid for the services they provide.

This month, Medicare announced that it will not use corrected wage data for Nantucket Cottage Hospital in establishing the rural floor for Massachusetts. What does this mean for Massachusetts hospitals and patients?

Every 90 days, Partners voluntarily issues a press release detailing our financial performance as a system. We do this out of a sense of obligation to be transparent with our patients, our employees, government, bondholders, the media as well as the rest of the health care marketplace.

Today we’re proud to announce that five Partners HealthCare hospitals have been recognized for excellence by the annual U.S. News & World Report annual Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals.

For more than 20 years, the Partners HealthCare workforce that supports our world-renowned institutions has been scattered across 15 locations in the Boston metro area. As a result, working across departments has been challenging for many of our employees. This week, that starts to change.

​Late yesterday, elected officials in Massachusetts detailed a plan that represents an effective way to provide needed assistance to those community hospitals that serve high numbers of low income patients here in Massachusetts.

This is part of an ongoing series by our Quality, Safety & Value team highlighting Partners HealthCare’s efforts to develop and implement best practices across our network of hospitals to improve the quality of care patients receive while reducing costs. There are countless technological advances that help us bring patients h...

From startup incubators to preventive patient safety measures, health care providers throughout Massachusetts are finding unique and innovative ways to redesign care. Recently, the Massachusetts Hospital Association presented their inaugural Accountable Care Compass Awards to recognize some of the excellent efforts by the Common...

This week, the Health Policy Commission met for their annual Cost Trend Hearing to address the challenges our industry faces in controlling health care costs. While many questions remain, some progress has been made, and insurers and providers alike were on hand to share the efforts that collectively they have taken to reduce co...

When hospitals assemble their emergency plans, the safety of patients, visitors, and staff is always a top concern, but at academic medical centers, there’s another important consideration to take into account: clinical research. Clinical research brings its own concerns in an emergency. Years of work can be lost if paper not...

Since 2012, Partners HealthCare has been one of the participants in the U.S. government’s Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) pilot program. In both 2012 and 2013, previous reporting showed that Partners had decreased the rate of growth of health care costs. Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) ...

With the recent publication of our annual report, we took an opportunity to look back over the past year at advances and achievements throughout the Partners HealthCare system. Through strong partnerships and system-wide efforts, we’ve continued to improve the quality of health care – and equally important, make it more afforda...

Throughout the United States, every phase of healthcare is being fundamentally restructured. As these changes take place, the need for disruptive research and applied innovation will remain an enduring priority. Partners HealthCare, as the largest single academic research entity, is convening leaders from around the globe to...

Partners HealthCare began a new partnership with physician group Harbor Medical Associates on the South Shore on Wednesday. The Brigham and Women’s Physicians Organization has a long-standing, close clinical relationship with Harbor Medical Associates. By merging, we will be able to offer more coordinated care for our mutual pat...

Prostate cancer is curable when detected early, yet an American man dies from the disease every 18 minutes. Affecting one in seven men, this disease is even more common than breast cancer (which affects one in eight women), but public awareness and research funding to improve diagnosis and treatment are still lacking. That’s ...

After conversations with the Attorney General’s office last week, we have taken an important step with regard to our affiliation plans with South Shore Hospital (SSH) and Hallmark Health System (HHS). The Attorney General made a public statement and a formal filing with the court yesterday. We have listened and heard the...

We are pleased to share the news that the Partners HealthCare Board of Directors met Wednesday evening to choose its next President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. David Torchiana. He is currently Chairman and CEO of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO). Dr. Torchiana is recognized and respected as ...

This afternoon, Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders rejected our consent agreement with the Massachusetts Attorney General which would have allowed us to proceed with our affiliation plans with South Shore Hospital (SSH) and Hallmark Health System (HHS). This decision is very disappointing for all involved in this process, includ...

Partners HealthCare CEO Gary Gottlieb, MD, recently spoke with Modern Healthcare about some of the strategies we’ve pursued to expand access to affordable health care, closer to our patients’ homes. One major effort of recent years has involved implementing population health management across our system. This serves a greater g...

Oz Mondejar grew up with a strong appreciation for the opportunities available in the United States, instilled in him by a mother who immigrated here from Cuba. He also grew up with a limb difference. Together, those experiences have helped fuel his desire to create more opportunity for skilled individuals with disabilities. To...

Instructor and MGH Institute of Health Professions alumna Ali Stoll teaches an adaptive sports class at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Experiencing a disabling injury or illness can strike a significant blow to a person’s self-confidence, among many other challenges. Participating in adaptive sports often provides...

Yesterday we awarded the second round of grants to health centers across the state as part of the Partnership for Community Health. Together with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers and Neighborhood Health Plan, Partners HealthCare is distributing $6 million to 35 community health centers in this round to suppo...

It has been exactly two years since South Shore Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Partners HealthCare made public their collective vision for a more coordinated, more accessible and cost-effective health care system for patients in southeastern Massachusetts. Today, The Boston Globe published this opinion piece by South...

H. Richard Nesson, then-president of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and J. Robert Buchanan, then-general director of Massachusetts General Hospital, shake hands to mark the founding of Partners HealthCare. On March 18, 1994, Partners HealthCare was born, the realization of an agreement between Massachusetts General Hospital and ...

“Why leave women’s health to chance?” asks Dr. Paula Johnson of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in a recent TED talk. When it comes to the relationship between biomedical research and medical treatment, inattention to sex differences can often lead to inequity in health outcomes. It’s been more than 20 years since Congress passed ...