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The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine, its hospital partner, in conjunction with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, established a center aimed at fighting infections in healthcare facilities, according to WOWT News.

Half of insured Americans do not know their insurance will cover annual check-ups, according to a Cigna survey. Cigna surveyed 1,000 Americans, aged 25 years to 75 years.

The National Patient Safety Foundation released a new report titled, "Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after To Err is Human."

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia found the presence of medical students in the emergency department adds less than five minutes to the average length of a patient's stay. Researchers evaluated more…

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Optum's HouseCalls have proven successful in reducing hospitalizations and nursing home admissions, based on a new study by RAND Corporation. Health Affairs published the study.

Researchers at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Cambridge, Mass., developed a system to track nanometer-sized viruses at sub-millisecond time scales.

The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro in Middlesex County, N.J., has opened a new bariatric surgery center, according to MyCentralJersey.com.

In Seattle and King County (Wash.), the survival rate for cardiac arrests treated by emergency medical service providers improved to 19.9 percent, up 22 percent from seven years prior, according to The New York Times.

Infection control is a major priority for any healthcare facility. In 2013, the CDC reported substantial reductions for nearly all healthcare-acquired infections. Between 2008 and 2013, the CDC found a 46 percent decrease in Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. Despite…