Overcoming the Many Obstacles of OPPE – The Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation

“The Joint Commission leaves it gray”, explained Deb Masters, PPE Coordinator, Halifax Health, of the Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) standard.  Deb’s right.  The Joint Commission (TJC) has created a standard with general guidelines, but little direction on how to build a process for collecting, tracking, reviewing, and addressing specialty-specific data on all active practitioners in a healthcare system.  No big deal, right?  It is a big deal, but it does not have to be a big mess of data and papers.  Through countless hours of research and conversations, Halifax Health has overcome many of the obstacles of OPPE.  They have created a structure and process that allows them accuracy, relevance, and flexibility that has both improved their OPPE efficiency and has been recognized by their onsite TJC survey team!

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