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How World Cup Organizers Are Preparing For Any Possible Health Challenges
It may not be the first thing that jumps to mind about the World Cup, but health is front and center for Massachusetts officials ahead of the tournament.
Discussing Hantavirus Concerns
I think the public health authorities overall worldwide has done an excellent job, including the CDC, the W.H.O. They've been tracing the contacts and monitoring exposed travelers.
Dr. Sandeep Jubbal | Infectious Disease Specialist, UMass Memorial Health
HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital Earns “A” Hospital Safety Grade from Leapfrog
AI Being Used in Massachusetts To Give Patients a More Timely Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease
A lot of times you don’t see anything. It’s hard to see anything visually in the data, but there are differences in the image that the machine learning can pick up on.
Gennady Gelman, MD | Family Medicine, UMass Memorial Health
AI Can Detect Breast Cancer Risk Before Humans. Why It May Take Hospitals a While To Adopt the Tech
The Selection of Dr. David McManus as Chancellor Charts a New Path for UMass Chan and UMass Memorial Health
I look forward to working with Chancellor McManus to strengthen the ties that bind our institutions to achieve even greater feats for academic medicine and the future of clinical care.
Dr. Eric Dickson | President and CEO, UMass Memorial Health
The Doctor Is In — or Is It AI?
AI isn't a choice anymore. It's coming. We can't shut it off and so our job as humans is to figure out how to leverage it for the benefit of our patients — in my particular situation — or society as a whole.
Erik Dickson, MD | President and CEO UMass Memorial Health
What Precision Care AI Looks Like at Enterprise Scale — 4 Takeaways
With an estimated 140,000 health AI companies competing for health system attention, the challenge for executives is no longer whether to adopt AI but how to evaluate which platforms will deliver at scale.
Mass. Health Officials: Passenger on Boston-Bound JetBlue Flight Had Measles, Prompts Health Alert
Great Leaders in Healthcare 2026
Shhhh: Quieter Hospitals Offer Benefits to Inpatients
The word is out in the medical community that quieter hospital environments offer significant benefits to inpatients.
Improved sleep environments can additionally reduce the need for sedative medications, anxiolytics, or antipsychotics, particularly in older adults who are vulnerable to delirium
Bhavin Patel, DO | Hospitalist
A $250M Cost: Insurers Say Prior Authorizations Reduce Unnecessary Care. Hospital Leaders Say New Reforms Could Ease the Administrative Burden.
Prior authorizations cost UMass Memorial Health up to $250 million annually, said President and CEO Dr. Eric Dickson. That might be an underestimate, he said.