A nursing home in Minot, N.D., has filed a lawsuit against Minot-based Trinity Health, claiming dozens of people affected by a hepatitis C outbreak may have gotten the virus from services provided by Trinity, according to a KUMV report.

Even though an increasing amount of healthcare quality data and information is now available online to patients, just 14 percent of adults in the U.S. integrate available quality information in their healthcare decisions, a Harvard-led study found.

Here are seven statistics on physicians' employment and ownership status, according to a survey by Jackson Healthcare, a healthcare staffing company.

How Allina Health saved $4 million from blood use management

Patients are less likely to die in a hospital if admitted through high-volume emergency departments, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

  Patients are increasingly relying on nurse practitioners at retail clinics for the provision of chronic and preventative health services, according to new research released by Walgreens.

The CareFusion Foundation has awarded $500,000 in grant funding to 11 nonprofit healthcare organizations in the United States.

In a Gallup Business Journal article, Jeff Burger, a managing consultant at Gallup, discusses strategies hospitals can employ to reduce readmissions.

  A new guidance that aims at helping healthcare organizations prioritize strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia has been published in the August issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, as part of the update of the Compendium of Strategies to…

There have been a record number of measles cases in the United States so far this year, with 566 confirmed cases of the highly contagious disease in 20 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's the…