Leapfrog Group

Leapfrog Group (2004) New guide for hospitals on computerised physician order entery (CPOE) gives hospitals much needed resource http //www.leapfroggroup.org/news/leapfrog news/ 97902.Cited 30 Dec 2008... 

Leapfrog. 2002. Leapfrog Group jumps at chance to give consumers health care info. Healthcare Benchmarks 9 23. 

The Leapfrog Group, http //leapfroggroup.org, accessed June 23, 2003. 

Tfie Leapfrog Group, in collaboration with the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping Americans make better health care decisions, offers information for consumers on its Web site. 

The work of the Leapfrog Group has caused other purchasers to insist that providers implement these three safety leaps as a condition of contracting. As more purchasers begin to question their costs related to medical events (health benefits, time lost from work, employee death and disability), additional actions will be implemented. Patient safety language will be required in contracts for health plans. Enrollment will be frozen in health plans that fail to comply. Pay for performance is on the horizon. Payment systems will be revised from a simple per-... 

Leapfrog Group (2) A body formed by the Business Roimdtable, a coalition of prominent business leaders who purchase health insiu ance for 25 million Americans. Organized to confront the problem of medical accident, the Leapfing Group established a voluntary program that rewards the health care industry for breakthrough improvements ( big leaps ) in patient safety. 

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in addition to performing its primary role of supporting research, has taken the lead in promoting the identihcation and implementation of safe practices. To do this, AHRQ commissioned the National Quality Forum (NQF) to develop a list of thirty safe practices, published in May 2003. NQF s expert committee found sufficient evidence of impact to recommend these thirty practices to all hospitals. Both JCAHO and the Leapfrog Group will probably look to this fist for additional practices to be recommended. 

The Leapfrog Group, an industry consumer consortium, requires that certain quality standards be met before a hospital will be reimbursed for services to employees of the consortium,... 

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