The suicide rate in the U.S. has reached its highest level in nearly 30 years, with recent increases in every age group under 75 years old. The total number of suicide deaths has increased 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics.

Female physicians are still making less on average than their male counterparts, while orthopedists and cardiologists remain the highest earning specialists

2,000 pregnant women have had their Covered California health plans suddenly canceled, reports The Sacramento Bee.Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article72486827.html#storyl…

Mount Sinai Health System has joined several other leading healthcare provider organizations by launching OpenNotes, the national initiative that allows patients electronic access to their provider’s notes in their medical records. 

Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., has performed its first transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure on an 85-year-old patient.

A new American Health Information Management Association Patient Portal Toolkit for health information management (HIM) professionals highlights trends and provides guidance on the issues, latest regulatory requirements, opportunities and challenges of a patient portal. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services put the brakes on its new hospital quality ratings system just a day before it was to launch amid growing pressure from Congress and the healthcare industry.

A study published by JAMA Internal Medicine found that half of the visits to the emergency department (ED) for the top 10 diagnoses are indistinguishable from being urgent or nonurgent.