Despite enthusiasm over financial incentives and behavioral "nudges" to push physicians toward more evidence-based care, healthcare leaders need to think more broadly about their institution's organizational culture to see lasting improvements in patient outcomes, two professors of medicine at UC Los Angeles argue in Harvard Business Review.  By Megan Knowles - 6/19/18

Officials with the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville, Ark., launched an investigation June 18 after a pathologist was found to have misdiagnosed patients while "impaired" — resulting in at least one death, according to KFSM.  By Megan Knowles - 6/19/18

In 2017, RNs in 12 states reported a 3 percent or more salary increase over the previous year. However, six states had less than 1 percent increase in salary, according to data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. By Laura Dyrda - 6/19/18

On June 14 at Logan (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center, two families were given the wrong babies due to incomplete name tags, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail.  By Harrison Cook - 6/19/18

With the recent Ebola outbreak in the Congo, many U.S. hospitals are evaluating their ability to diagnose, treat, contain and craft a disease plan.    By Harrison Cook - 6/19/18

Following the healthier trend among the food industry, Pizza Hut plans to eliminate its use of chicken raised on antibiotics, according to Reuters.  By Harrison Cook - 6/19/18

  Across state lines, the requirements for quality control measures governing medical radiation devices range from comprehensive to virtually non-existent.  By Thomas J. Petrone, PhD, DABR, Chief Medical Physicist and CEO – Petrone Associates - 6/19/18

Patients with acute coronary syndrome who got too little sleep in the month following a hospital evaluation were two times more likely to be rehospitalized, according to new research published in Sleep.  By Harrison Cook - 6/19/18

Any healthcare device that connects to the internet is vulnerable for hacking and could pose a threat to patient safety, according to Renal and Urology News.  By Harrison Cook - 6/18/18

Researchers from Chambersburg, Pa.-based Summit Health examined the effectiveness of a 175-item checklist its environmental services team used to complete terminal cleaning of hospital rooms in 2017.  By Anuja Vaidya - 6/18/18

Nurse practitioners may be less likely to inappropriately prescribe antibiotics than physicians, according to data from the athenahealth network.  By Megan Knowles - 6/18/18

Despite tracking detailed quality statistics on its nursing homes for years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has concealed these measures from the public — leaving veterans without critical health information, according to The Boston Globe.  By Megan Knowles - 6/18/18

Physicians who regularly pass exams on the most recent clinical guidelines may provide higher quality care than their colleagues who do not maintain board certification, a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine found.  By Megan Knowles - 6/18/18

The U.S. Army is responding to a norovirus outbreak at Camp Nuehring and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, according to the Army Times.  By Harrison Cook - 6/18/18

CMS has reportedly miscalculated hospitals' star ratings since implementing the ratings system in 2016 by weighting specific categories more heavily than others, according to an analysis by Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center cited by Crain's Detroit Business.  By Alyssa Rege - 6/18/18

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services sanctioned CHI Health St. Elizabeth in Lincoln, Neb., after a patient death last November that resulted from injuries sustained during a fall from a bed, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.  By Alyssa Rege - 6/18/18

Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston unexpectedly developed a vaccine for cholera that works faster than the disease spreads, according to Scientific American.  By Harrison Cook - 6/15/18

Crouse, State University of New York Upstate Medical University and Community General Hospital in Syracuse, New York, reported significantly worse than average surgical infection rates for 2016, according to Syracuse.com.  By Harrison Cook - 6/15/18

Despite the high number of sepsis deaths in hospitals each year, current approaches to battling it aren't working — and providers need to develop more innovative ways to tackle the deadly infection, Derek Angus, MD, professor and chair of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, writes in a STAT op-ed.  By Megan Knowles - 6/15/18

The Johnson & Johnson Institute rolled out a global virtual reality training program for surgeons and nurses, the company announced June 6.  By Jessica Kim Cohen - 6/15/18