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Patients with no schooling benefit least from blood thinning medications, according to survey results published in Europace.

The Cincinnati VA Medical Center is undergoing an internal investigation in light of various patient care issues and concerns about a top official's improper practices, according to Dayton Daily News.

Despite growing demand for physician assistants and nurse practitioners, a policy brief reports patient care teams often lack other healthcare professionals including  behavioral specialists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, physical therapists and occupational therapists, according to AJMC.com.

In the last 12 months ending in January 2016, health insurance costs increased 4.8 percent, according to the U.S.  Department of Labor.

In a Regina Corso Consulting survey, nearly 76 percent of respondents reported they agree all physicians should use digital technology for patients' records, according to News-Medical.

John Mafi, MD, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is the lead author of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association that examined the effect of email reminders on whether…

Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Medical Center will pay a $2 million penalty for healthcare-acquired infections from 2012 to 2014, according to The Daily Progress. 

A Minnesota Department of Health listed 19 adverse events during a 12-month period in northern Minnesotan hospitals, one of which was the sexual assault of a patient, according to Duluth News Tribune.

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology updated their position paper on safe injection practices.

Voters display concern about the accessibility, quality and costs of healthcare, according to a Morning Consult survey commissioned by University of Phoenix College of Health Professions. The survey received responses from 1,985 registered U.S. voters.