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Partners’ second-quarter earnings fall on one-time charge

By Robert Weisman

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 24, 2012

Taking a nearly $110 million write-off on an electronic health record system it will be scrapping, Partners HealthCare System Inc. reported Thursday that its second quarter operating income dropped to $5.3 million from $71.2 million in the same quarter last year. Partners, the state’s largest hospital and physicians network, partly offset the decline through an increase in investment income. But net income fell to $132.2 million for the three months ending March 31, down 20.4 percent from $166.4 million a year earlier.

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