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Identification Systems Group, a Kansas City, Mo.-based network of identification system integrators, partnered with industry manufacturers to implement better patient safety. Many medical errors occur because of patient misidentification, often caused by inadequate labeling wristbands.

The Coalition to Improve Diagnosis formed to take on the issue of misdiagnosing in the medical industry, according to Medscape.

Here are seven statistics from the ASC Quality Collaboration's report on ASC quality data.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unveiled an interactive tool that allows providers to see how antibiotic resistance for four bacteria has changed during the past 18 years.

Indiana confirmed the state's third human case of West Nile in St. Joseph County, according to Daily Herald.

Hospira, a Lake Forest, Ill.-based provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, has introduced its Smart Pump, a device fostering I.V.-EMR interoperability, which Charleston (W. Va.) Area Medical Center is implementing.

Researchers will present their findings on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, a viral respiratory disease, at the International Conference on Emerging and Infectious Diseases in Atlanta.

The Pan-Provincial Vaccine Enterprise, a national Centre of Excellence for Commercialization and Research at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, is working with Vaxent in Memphis, Tenn., to conduct a clinical trial of StreptAnova.

Imprivata, a healthcare IT security company in Lexington, Mass., created Imprivata PatientSecure.

Inspira Health Network, a nonprofit healthcare organization in Woodbury, N.J. named five new members to vice president positions, according to SNJ Today.