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This week marks Patient Safety Awareness Week in the United States, prompting John Suit, chief technology officer of Baltimore-based Trivalent, to provide key data security tips in Information Security Buzz.

Dayton, Ohio-based Digestive Specialists and Digestive Endoscopy Center are relocating to a new $10 million facility in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio in 2018, Dayton Daily News reports.

Throughout Florida, officials are monitoring the mosquito population in anticipation of another Zika outbreak, according to The Hill.

The number of patient burns in ASCs marginally increased during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, according to ASC Quality Collaboration data.

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.