Patients who use online platforms linked to EHRs are far more likely to take preventive health measures, like getting a flu shot or checking blood pressure, than patients who don't use patient portals, according to a study published in the…

Chrissy Ballard, a former nurse at Knoxville, Tenn.-based Caris Healthcare, says she was fired after taking a leave of absence to undergo treatment for breast cancer, according to Medscape. 

Here are eight stories from Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control on influenza, which sickened an estimated 43 million Americans during the 2018-19 flu season, according to the CDC.

Cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2018, according to a new CDC report.

Washington, D.C.-based St. Elizabeths Hospital will go without running water for at least another week since shutting off its water Sept. 26 after discovering the presence of Pseudomonas and Legionella bacteria, according to The Washington Post.

Sixty-five percent of pregnant women are not getting flu shots and Tdap vaccines per CDC recommendations, according to new data from the agency. 

CMS plans to investigate Newark (N.J.) Beth Israel Medical Center after a report found physicians allegedly kept a patient in a vegetative state alive for a year to improve its heart transplant program's survival rate, reports ProPublica.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health affiliated with the 23-physician Concorde Medical Group, a multispecialty group with seven locations in Manhattan.

Florida health officials have issued a mosquito-borne illness alert in Miami-Dade County and confirmed three new cases of dengue Oct. 4.

Clinical guidelines that suggest excluding patients from stool testing for Clostridioides difficile infection if they have recently received laxatives may cause "potential harm," according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.