Featured blog post: Is your OPPE data really complete?

When reviewing a physician’s ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) profile, do you as a physician leader feel that you have a complete picture of the physician’s practice in your hospital? Because the goal of a successful OPPE process is to evaluate the physician’s current competency and current practice within your organization, ensuring that you have meaningful and complete data on every physician is important. The Joint Commission’s standards indicate that medical staff leaders must base decisions to modify, continue to grant, or terminate a physician’s privileges based on this ongoing assessment. To make a decision affecting privileges, the medical staff must perform a thorough review.

Read more of this blog post by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, on MedicalStaffLeader.com