Time's Up, the organization launched by several women in the entertainment industry in January 2018 to fight sexual harassment and improve accountability, announced the creation of "Time's Up Healthcare" on Feb. 28.

Despite decades of effort to improve the number of African-American physicians practicing in the U.S., black students remain an underrepresented minority in medical schools, a USA Today investigation found.

Veteran ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen has spent more than a decade investigating the healthcare industry and how health systems measure the quality of physicians. Because of his job as a journalist and lack of medical degree or any professional health degree, he said he was surprised when he received a call last year from an organization that sought to present him with a "Top Doctor" award.

The Washington, D.C.-based Georgetown University School of Medicine is launching a campaign to help students learn about and fight microaggressions in medicine, according to The College Fix.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Amy Acton, MD, to serve as chief of the state's health department during a press conference Feb. 26, according to the Dayton Daily News.

Detroit-based Wayne State University School of Medicine officials said they hope to resume negotiations with Henry Ford Health System over a shared medical education partnership — negotiations that reportedly collapsed this past weekend, The Detroit News reports.

A university Senate committee decided the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis was fully within its rights to delay a reproductive health fellowship, but officials should have reached out to administration to discuss the decision, Minnesota Daily reports.

In February 2017, a Dallas-based school nurse began keeping a list of all the women murdered by men. Roughly two years later, the database includes nearly 2,500 women from across the U.S.

Saint Anthony Hospital (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.) uses technology to help prioritize the needs of communities it serves. 

The Providence Heart and Vascular Institute in Renton, Wash., has stepped in to help heart transplant patients after Portland, Ore.-based OHSU deactivated its program last fall, according to KATU 2 News.

Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges states that while half of the students attending medical school in 2018 were female, only 9 percent of them sought to pursue a surgical specialty. One Florida physician is trying to shift that stigma, the Tampa Bay Times reports.

Sitka (Alaska) Community Hospital will suspend all major surgeries, effective Feb. 28, the Daily Sitka Sentinel reports.

U.S. physician burnout has dropped below 50 percent for the first time since 2011, according to a recent joint study by the American Medical Association, Stanford (Calif.) University School of Medicine and the Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic.

A recent blog post by TeamHealth discusses the importance of signing charts within the specified timeframe. 

A recent blog post by LogicStream reviews a report that shows how drug shortages are impacting drug pricing this year. 

In a recent press release, KLAS Research named Shift Admin a 2019 Category Leader for Scheduling: Physician in their annual "Best in KLAS” report, confirming Shift Admin’s position as the No. 1 web-based scheduling software on the market.

Some studies suggest that using Twitter may have a positive effect on medical students' educational and career development, according to the American Medical Association.

Clinicians such as nurses and physician assistants appear more likely than physicians to want to use chronic-care management services developed by health plans, according to The Deloitte Center for Health Solutions' recent survey.

A group of physicians that planned to leave Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health will now do so two months earlier than expected, according to the Charlotte Observer.

The New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine is making strides to reduce the amount of debt students incur while pursuing their medical degree, according to Yale News.