Meeting the Joint Commission's OPPE mandate
Topics: Performance Improvement, Hospital-Physician Alignment, Physician Issues
A higher bar for physician recredentialing
Several years into its Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) mandate, the Joint Commission has dramatically altered the landscape for physician performance monitoring. Hospitals are now accountable for more rigorously and regularly evaluating physician performance—and actively using performance data to make privileging decisions.
Compliance fraught with challenges
The Joint Commission's requirement spurred most hospitals to create at least entry-level OPPE programs, but building an effective one has proven challenging. Simply collecting performance data is onerous enough that many hospitals rely on time-intensive chart review. Securing physicians’ participation in the management of their own performance—an imperative to avoid citation—is even more difficult.
How We Help
Crimson Continuum of Care, part of the Crimson Clinical Advantage suite of offerings, streamlines the data collection process. We reduce the burden of OPPE data collection by:
- Transforming raw data from virtually any electronic tracker into comprehensive physician profiles that include clinical and non-clinical performance measures.
- Offering access to 100+ specialty-specific measures that ensure reports are appropriately tailored.
- Enabling program managers to access and batch-print hundreds of profiles simultaneously, further minimizing the time needed to prepare for Joint Commission reviews.
Expand the breadth and depth of evaluation
Crimson’s OPPE profiles help hospitals not only “check the box” for Joint Commission compliance but also engage the medical staff in data-driven conversations about performance.
Our dedicated advisors, meanwhile, provide expert consultation to help hospitals design robust OPPE policies, improve the quality of clinical evaluations, and ultimately elevate performance.
Contact us for more information about Crimson Continuum of Care
Crimson Continuum of Care home
