Researchers led by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. identified measures healthcare organizations can use to encourage employees to speak up about patient safety concerns.

In response to recent criticism from patients, the Villages (Fla.) Regional Hospital, part of Central Florida Health, released data reflecting its patient care improvements in the last few years, Villages-News.com reports.

Data collected by healthcare companies could help make flu forecasts more accurate, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin and published in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.

The use of medical scribes to track physician-patient encounters in real time for primary care visits was linked to significant reductions in EHR documentation time and improvements in physician productivity and job satisfaction, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine…

To expand care for premature infants, San Antonio, Texas-based St. Luke's Baptist Hospital doubled the capacity of its neonatal intensive care unit, KSAT reports.

A law signed by Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown Sept. 19 requires California physicians put on probation for sexual misconduct, among other behaviors, to disclose that information to their patients, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, said Americans must change the way they discuss the opioid epidemic and addiction in a Sept. 20 report entitled, 'Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Spotlight on Opioids.'

Health officials overseeing the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo said efforts to halt the disease from spreading are proving successful, according to STAT's Morning Rounds e-newsletter released Sept. 20.

Meharry Medical College, a historically black college in Nashville, Tenn., unveiled a data science institute targeted toward minority populations Sept. 13.

Patients receiving care in a for-profit hospital are more likely to be readmitted than those in nonprofit or public hospitals, a study from University of Illinois at Chicago researchers found.