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.

Patient Treatment Centers of America and the Interventional Surgery Institute are notifying over 19,000 patients of a security breach suffered by third party vendor Bizmatics.

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. 

A survey conducted by Ponemon Institutes has found that the risk of healthcare network leaks and cyber-attacks is rising as a result of endpoint vulnerabilities.

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.