Healthcare Acronyms

Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation

A 2008 Joint Commission (JC) standard mandating detailed evaluation of practitioners' professional performance as part of the process of granting and maintaining practice privileges in a health care organization. OPPE is intended as a means of evaluating professional performance on an ongoing basis, as part of the effort to monitor professional competency, identify areas for possible performance improvement by individual practitioners, and utilize objective data in decisions regarding continuance of practice privileges.