Here are the nine ASCs and outpatient facilities that experienced data breaches in 2018:

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control studied the validity of hand hygiene compliance measurements by observation.

Prescient Surgical raised $10 million in series B funding.

Jebby Mathew, regional director of operations for Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III, detailed five things ASC managers should do when meeting and visiting with patients and their families, as well as how doing rounds can bring about change in an ASC.

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control examined how an electronic monitoring system can affect hand hygiene behaviors of healthcare workers.

Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III outlined 6 strategies ASC staff can allow to optimize patient satisfaction on their blog.

Becker's ASC Review spoke with Naomi Kuznets, PhD, vice president and senior director of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care's Institute for Quality Improvement about the top deficiencies cited in this year's AAAHC Quality Roadmap, and how ASCs can improve.

Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center decreased its immediate use sterilization episodes from more than 2,400 to zero in five years by deploying strategies such as daily huddles, schedule adjustments and reprocessing discussions, Relias Media reports.

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control detailed how EHR and American College of Surgeons outcome data can help identify surgical site infections.

HIPAA Journal's October 2018 data breach report showed a month-over-month increase in healthcare data breaches, with more than one healthcare data breach occurring every day in October.

A report from Deloitte examined the role of value-based care has in the shift from inpatient to outpatient care.

Employed physicians are dissatisfied and angrier than their independent counterparts, according to a survey from analytics company Geneia, Healthcare Finance News reports.

Research published in JAMA Surgery examined the association between quality of life, healthcare contacts, quality of recovery and functional health literacy in patients undergoing day surgery in Sweden.

There are several ways ASCs can improve quality by making staffing changes. Here are three tips from experts across the country.

An ASC administrator is integral to a quality assurance performance improvement program, according to a Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III blog.

Research published in the American Journal of Infection Control detailed the challenges of upholding hand hygiene standards, and how to reconstruct programs to improve compliance.

Three Amazon devices are now HIPAA eligible.

  Progressive Surgical Solutions outlined three essential infection control program elements ASCs should know.

Ten registered nurses who provide care in Oswego (N.Y.) Hospital's surgery center earned CNOR certification, Oswego County Today reports.

For each quarter in 2018, the number of healthcare records affected in data breaches has risen, according to HIPAA Journal.