; (2) require all State departments of health to use the data provided by hospitals for error reporting to analyze trends and identify best practices; (3) reduce rates of preventable medical errors; and (4) ensure patients have access to information for medical injury or illness due to medical error, negligence, or malpractice. 943. Office of Patient Safety and Health Care Quality (a) In General The Secretary shall establish within the Office of the Secretary, an Office of Patient Safety and Health Care Quality to collaborate with the Director of the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality to improve patient safety and reduce medical error across the health care system. The Office shall be headed by a Director to be appointed by the Secretary. (b) Activities The activities of the Office shall be deemed patient safety activities, as defined in section 921. (c) Duties The Director of the Office shall— (1) establish and administer the Program; (2) determine who is eligible for participation in the Program in accordance with section 945; (3) contract with an independent entity for the purpose of evaluating the Program at least once every two years, with the results of such evaluations being disseminated to Program participants, Congress, and the public; (4) establish and maintain, in consultation with patient safety organizations, health care quality organizations, health care providers, and the health information technology industry, a National Patient Safety Database as provided for in section 944 to receive nonidentifiable patient safety work product as described in the reporting requirements for Program participants under section 945(c)(10); (5) determine and adopt a standardized patient safety taxonomy, necessary elements, common and consistent definitions, and standardized formats for the electronic reporting of patient safety data to the Database as described in section 944(e)