Insider Monkey, a financial news publication, ranked the most popular healthcare stocks among hedge funds at the end of December 2019. 

Women wearing heavy makeup are perceived as less experienced, less competent, less warm, less moral, less in control and less human, according to a study published in the journal Sex Roles.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following health IT executive moves recently affecting hospitals, companies and federal agencies.

Here are six recent health information technology vendor contracts and go-lives affecting healthcare organizations.

Highmark West Virginia on Feb. 20 announced a new initiative to provide telemedicine-based treatment and services to members dealing with opioid and other addictions, according to News and Sentinel.

In what Nebula Genomics claims is the "most affordable personal genome sequencing" on the market, as of Feb. 18, the direct-to-consumer DNA testing startup's flagship test is available in 188 countries for $299.

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System has become the first health system to join an initiative to create a statewide electronic registry for advance care planning documents, according to a Feb. 19 news release.

Six hospitals or health systems announced, started, advanced or completed construction projects in the last week:

The CDC estimates flu has caused 29 million illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations and 16,000 deaths this season, according to the agency's most recent FluView report.

A hospital safety law California enacted three years ago has done little to prevent workplace violence, healthcare employees told NBC Bay Area.

Health IT is a booming field both on the clinical and technology side. MarketsandMarkets projects the health IT market was $187.6 billion in 2019 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate for the subsequent five years, hitting $390.7 billion by 2024.

CMS and ONC on Feb. 21 released a report with strategic plan recommendations to combat regulatory and administrative burden associated with the use of health IT, including EHRs.

Regulatory reporting requirements and usability issues associated with EHRs can cause stress for physicians. While some can adapt to the technology, others, including Edward Volpintesta, MD, have not.

Mark Rupp, MD, chief of the infectious disease division and medical director of infection control and epidemiology at Omaha-based University of Nebraska Medical Center, discussed the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak with Becker's.  

The Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General released a report Feb. 20 detailing patient care issues at Dayton (Ohio) VA Medical Center that may have contributed to the death of an elderly patient, according to a Dayton Daily News report.

Online searches for a rare disorder called cleidocranial dysplasia spiked after the disease was spotlighted on the most recent season of the TV show "Stranger Things," according to a study published in JAMA Otolaryngoloy-Head & Neck Surgery.

A former nurse at Madison, Wis.-based UnityPoint Health-Meriter was sentenced to 13 years in prison for injuring nine infants in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit between 2017 and 2018, reports the Wisconsin State Journal.

Becker's Hospital Review reported the following hospital and health system executive moves in the last week: 

David T. Vandewater, president and CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Ardent Health Services, will retire this year.

Following the delay of the Department of Veterans Affairs' Cerner EHR go-live, a Senate committee passed a bill last week that requires the agency to be more transparent about the status of its multimillion-dollar IT projects, according to a Feb. 20 FCW report.