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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City has begun implementing mobile apps for both patients and physicians, according to the Huffington Post.

Stanford (Calif.) Health Care is facing criticism regarding poor patient care measures due to its recent poor Medicare ratings and older C. difficile infection raters, according to The Stanford Daily.

For the first time, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and America's Health Insurance Plans agreed on how to measure physician quality in seven areas, according to The Washington Post.

Thousands of patients in Iowa's hospitals are seriously or fatally injured due to unreported, preventable medical errors, as found in Heartland Health Research Institute's new report, "Silently Harmed—Hospital Medical Errors in Iowa," according to cbc online.

Matt Taylor, PhD, a Bozeman-based Montana State University assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, and his team researched the process of how viruses spread, according to Fox Montana.

Tall Tale Productions is releasing a documentary on patient safety, "To Err is Human."

At least two bacterial species are capable of spreading by hitchhiking on the body's own immune cells, according to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Banner Thunderbird Medical Center in Glendale, Ariz., is offering HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C testing to surgical patients who came in contact with a surgical technician currently under investigation, according to 9 News.

In September, the FDA will announce whether the manufacturing and marketing companies of antibacterial soap have effectively demonstrated their safety and effectiveness over plain soap and water in preventing illness, according to Wall Street Journal.

A Cook County (Ill.) patient is suing a group of physicians at Arlington Heights-based Northwest Community Hospital for her post-operative infection, according to Cook County Record.com.