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Healthcare startup MPIRICA Health is launching more than one million outpatient quality scores.

New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai researched sepsis treatments.

Archives of Internal Medicine published a 2012 study finding physicians were twice as likely to report dissatisfaction with work-life balance, which is a key contributor to physician burn-out, according to eVisit.

A report from Castlight Health shows opioid abuse rates are notably lower in states and jurisdictions where patients can legally access medical marijuana.

University of Buffalo (N.Y.) medical students provided healthcare to underserved populations in rural Haiti and Honduras, according to University of Buffalo.

Rachel Whittaker, BSN, RN, CPN, of the Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, and the Clinical Informatics Council of the University of New Mexico Hospitals in Albuquerque are recipients of the 2016 National Patient Safety Foundation DAISY Awards for Extraordinary Nurses.

Each year, norovirus costs the healthcare system nearly $4.2 billion, as found in a Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health study, according to CBS News.

Carmel-based Indiana University Health North Hospital highlights three primary ways to improve the patient care transition process, according to Fierce Healthcare.

Springfield (Ill.) Clinic is the first ASC in Illinois to utilize the Xenex Germ-Zapping Robot.

A study published in the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found a World Health Organization-endorsed six-step hand hygiene technique using alcohol-based hand sanitizer gel is more effective at removing bacteria than a less complex, three-step technique that the CDC suggests.