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Two new academic papers raise questions about physician burnout and patient safety risks associated with EHRs, according to MedCity News.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid released more guidance on the severe sepsis/septic shock management bundle measure, NQF #0500, according to APIC.

Somers Point, N.J.-based Shore Medical Center sent letters to 213 patients who received intravenous morphine or hydromorphine medicines between June 1, 2013, and Sept. 17, 2014, according to nj.com.

Physicians discovered a stillborn infant with Zika virus had a severely underdeveloped brain, as found in a PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases report, according to Gizmodo.

The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety will issue recommendations for safely using copy and paste functions at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society meeting in Las Vegas, according to HealthCareBusiness.

Based on an American Journal of Infection Control study, 17.4 percent of ambulatory care nurses comply with all nine standard precautions for infection prevention, according to APIC.

The University of California, San Francisco and CipherHealth, a New York-based healthcare technology firm, collaborated on a customizable care-management platform, called View, according to New-Medical.

The Oregon House voted to give employees of homeless and other crisis shelters wider access to naloxone, according to The Bulletin.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses added PeriopSim to Periop 101 in a six-month pilot program.

Mission Health in Asheville, N.C., selected PeraHealth's predictive analytics to help nurses and physicians better detect subtle but serious patient health issues.