News and Events

Time to Recommit to Preventing "Never Events"
November 11, 2010
The Leapfrog Group deeply commends Dr. David Ring from Massachusetts General Hospital for his candid, courageous and moving account in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine of performing an incorrect surgical procedure on a patient's hand.
Statement by The Leapfrog Group on the Final Meaningful Use Rule: Good First Step, But Grave Concerns
August 4, 2010
Leapfrog applauds the Obama Administration for including Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) as part of the final Meaningful Use regulations, published last month in the Federal Register. These new federal regulations are an important first step in accelerating health information technology adoption.
Leapfrog Announces New Report on the Safety of Electronic Prescribing in Hospitals
June 3, 2010
Lack of Testing and Monitoring By Hospitals and Vendors Potentially Jeopardizes Patients, But Solutions Are Available
From the 2009 Leapfrog Hospital Survey: Quality not Adequate & Waste a Major Problem
April 13, 2010
According to new results from the 2009 Leapfrog Hospital Survey released today at the World Health Congress in Washington, DC, hospital quality needs significant improvement and waste remains rampant. One encouraging sign: steady improvements over time.
Transparency Should Not Be a Luxury; It Is a Matter of Life and Death: What Purchasers and Consumers Can Do
February 3, 2010
For the first time, in 2009 The Leapfrog Group asked hospitals across the country on behalf of Leapfrog's purchaser members to publicly report their rates of one of the most common and deadly forms of hospital-acquired infections: central-line associated blood stream infections, or CLABSIs.
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