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The FDA listed 11 new drugs on its watch list in December 2016 because of the serious medical risk they post.

Healthcare organizations that employ a peer pressure approach to hand hygiene can increase physicians' compliance.

The global patient safety and risk management software market is set to hit $1.67 billion by 2022, according to a Meticulous Research analysis.

San Francisco-based Blue Shield of California, Visalia, Calif.-based Family Health Network and Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp. selected Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle Cloud Applications to digitize their financial, planning and budgeting systems.

The World Health Organization implemented a global initiative, the Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safe, aimed at reducing avoidable medication-associated harm by 50 percent over the next five years, according to News-Medical.

Kalamazoo, Mich.-based Stryker released its SurgiCount Tablet, a touch-screen interface for its SurgiCount Safety-Sponge System.

The ASC Quality Collaboration released data for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, showing the number of wrong site, side, patient, procedure and implants were up in the ASC setting, compared to previous quarters.

Healthcare facilities around the country are implementing different protocols to limit the number of patient falls, which may result in injury and readmission.

The hand hygiene market is likely to expand significantly from 2016 to 2014, according to a Transparency Market Research report.

JAMA Surgery published a study that found mobile apps are effective in providing follow-up care for patients that underwent ambulatory breast reconstruction surgery.