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The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute is supposed to fund research that aids patients in making informed healthcare decisions. Primary care physicians are calling foul however, asserting the grant money is not advancing PCORI's intended mission.

CommonWell Health Alliance, a nonprofit trade association of health IT companies, added seven members to its effort to improve health data exchange.

The American Epilepsy Society released a new guideline to help physicians, healthcare facilities and health systems treat patients effectively, according to News-Medical.

A recent study found patients are more likely to die if the nurses who care for them are looking after more than six patients, according to The Telegraph.

The Hawaii Department of Health enhanced its vital records ordering and tracking service, called vitrec.ehawaii.gov.

Beaumont, Texas-based pharmacist Andy Wilcox has seen common prescription drug increases of 200 percent to 10,000 percent, according to KFDM.

Analysts gave Surgical Care Affiliates shares a "hold" rating, according to Financial Market News.

According to a study published in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology, researchers may have found a link between the Zika virus and infants born with eye abnormalities that threaten vision.

The Zika virus is affecting the United Blood Services in Fargo, N.D., according to Valley News.

Vascular surgery patients are more likely to quit smoking when their physician offered the right kind of assistance, according to a new pilot study conducted by physicians from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., and Boston Medical Center.