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Scituate resident hired as South Shore Health's chief operating officer William C. Johnston will join the health system’s leadership team in June. “We are so excited to welcome Bill to the South Shore Health team,” South Shore Health President & CEO Allen L. Smith said in a statement. “His deep clinical, business and leadership experience will prove essential as we pursue performance improvement measures and strategic clinical affiliations that will ensure our system can adapt to a rapidly changing health care landscape. I know he embraces our mission to be the first place our communi...

Boston’s hospital chiefs moonlight on corporate boards at rates far beyond the national level Hospital chiefs and trustees defend this as boosting public-private partnerships, but critics say these board positions - some paying millions of dollars - raise troubling issues of conflict of interest and hospital priorities. By Liz Kowalczyk, Spotlight fellow Sarah L. Ryley, Mark Arsenault and Spotlight editor Patricia Wen Globe Staff and Globe Staff,Updated April 3, 2021, 4:54 p.m. Email to a Friend Globe Staff/Photo Illustration by Globe Staff As chief of Boston Children’s Hospital, o...

 E-Mail BOSTON - Almost immediately after the first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for emergency use and were administered to individuals outside of clinical trials, reports of anaphylaxis--a life-threatening whole-body allergic reaction--raised widespread concerns among experts and the public. Now, real world data on vaccinations among employees at Mass General Brigham provide reassurances of the rarity of such serious reactions, and the ability to recover from them. The findings are published in the "The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are the first vaccines of their kind, and they h...

Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Health Catalyst, Inc. Q4 2020 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference to your speaker today, Adam Brown. Please go ahead, sir. Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Financial Planning and Analysis Good afternoon, and welcome to Health Catalyst's earnings conference call for the fourth quarter of 2020 and the full-year 2020, both of which ended on December 31, 2020. My name i...

New research from investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital explores the connection between sleep disturbances and deficiencies among older adults and risk of dementia and death, finding that risk of dementia was double among participants who reported getting less than five hours of sleep compared to those who reported 7-8 hours of sleep per night.