Health Data Management: The Leapfrog Group has revised the tools and questions it plans to use in its 2008 annual safety and quality survey. Hospitals can currently begin completing the employer consortium’s survey.
The 2008 survey includes a computerized physician order entry evaluation tool designed to enable hospitals to determine how well their software alerts users to common, serious prescribing errors.
The survey also features new measures that evaluate how efficiently hospitals use resources for several procedures and conditions as well as measurements of certain hospital-acquired conditions.