Presented by: Dr. Christopher Heller,
MD, FACS
Dr. Heller is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine and received his surgical
training at University Hospitals of Cleveland.
In 1968, he won an all-expense-paid trip to
the 8th Field Hospital in Vietnam. In 1970,
he began his practice in general and vascular
surgery in Tucson, Arizona. In 1987, Dr. Heller
co-founded MIDAS+, a software company which
provides integrated software for quality,
care management and physician profiling. He
has served as Chief Medical Officer at Carondelet
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Corporate CMO
for Carondelet Health Network. He currently
divides his time between ACS MIDAS+ and quality
and lean data management consulting with Carondelet
Health Network.
The ongoing professional practice evaluation
(OPPE) mandated by The Joint Commission in
2007 has as an objective that organizations
look at data on performance for all practitioners
with privileges on an ongoing basis rather
than at the two-year reappointment process.
By doing so, this would allow organizations
and providers to take steps to improve performance
on a more timely basis. The objective is simple
enough. Yet the practical application of data
collection, attribution, analyses, evaluations,
profile distribution, security, etc. is much
more complicated. Join us for this informative
hour of understanding and overcoming challenges
that typically create hurdles in complying
with TJC mandate.
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