Leapfrog Group news and information

Hospitals showed improvement in safety grades produced by the Leapfrog Group, but officials for the employer-backed organization say the uptick in grades should be better.
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Modern Healthcare's annual Healthcare Purchasing Power Survey is unique because it captures an important but overlooked force in the economics of healthcare: hospitals in their role as purchasers of healthcare services. After all, health systems are employers—sometimes the largest employers...
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The deadline for Modern Healthcare's fifth annual Healthcare Purchasing Power Survey has been extended to Oct. 19. Co-sponsored by the Leapfrog Group and the National Business Coalition on Health, this survey recognizes the growing power employers have to dictate how healthcare services are...
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A trio of independent studies released last week bolstered the view that U.S. patient safety is not improving despite the efforts of doctors, hospitals, the federal government and various patient-safety groups.
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Consumer Reports has released individualized safety ratings for more than 1,100 hospitals. More than half of hospitals received an overall safety score below 50%.
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A letter-grade system based on patient-safety measures has riled up hospitals that received low or average scores.
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The Leapfrog Group used publicly available data to calculate a safety score based on an academic grading scale for more than 2,600 hospitals.
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In a simulated test of the computerized physician order entry systems at 253 hospitals, more than a third missed routine medication orders and just over 1% missed medication errors that would have resulted in a fatality.
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The Society of General Internal Medicine has launched the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, a panel examining how physicians are paid and how financial incentives affect patient care.
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The number of babies born through early elective deliveries is dropping, but hospitals still have a long way to go toward eliminating them, according to the Leapfrog Group, a Washington-based quality-improvement organization formed by large employers.
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