Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee

The Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH) Technical Committee is part of the Quality, Research and Public Health Domain and works in coordination with the Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee. Its activities include development and maintenance of the QRPH Technical Framework and supplements.

Current Activities

• CDA Conformance Reference Material

Profile Development 2015-2016 (Calendar year 2014-2015)

Evaluation Matrix

The following profile supplements were identified for development:

• CRDX
• QME-EH
• Healthy Weight Release 2
• Aggregate Data Exchange
• RPE41CP White Paper

Profile Development Process in QRPH

In general, the profile development process is similar in QRPH as in other domain committees.

QRPH adds the following additional steps:

• QRPH will assign two primary reviewers for each profile development work item.
• Reviewers can use the Quality,_Research_and_Public_Health_Technical_Committee/Review Guidance page to help focus their efforts.

Working Documents

Sample Brief Profile Proposal Page

Roster

The QRPH Technical Committee roster is available here.

The co-chairs of the committees are Eric Larson and Derek Ritz. They can be reached at qrph@ihe.net.

The roster consists of representatives of IHE member organizations. For additional details about how to join IHE International email membership@ihe.net.

It is strongly encouraged that all meeting participants be members of IHE International. However, the participation of people who do not represent an IHE Member Organization, referred to as Observers, shall be explicitly approved by the co-chairs at each meeting in which they participate. The presence of all people attending the meeting, including Observers, shall be recorded in the minutes of meetings. Observers shall not participate as authors of technical documents. Observer participation shall be to provide specific subject matter expertise and Observers shall be occasional and not regular committee participants. Only members of IHE International have voting rights at domain committee meetings.

QRPH Registry

The QRPH Registry lists various Profile Names, Template Identifiers, Format Codes, and OIDs that are under the control of the QRPH Committee.

Voting Privileges

You need to participate in order to maintain voting rights. IHE governance dictates that voting privileges requires participation in committee meetings. Please visit concerning Voting Privileges

Representatives with voting privileges may vote and count towards quorum.

Voting Privileges are based on the Roster Role and attendance of the Member Organization for this committee.

NOTE: New Member Organizations are granted Voting Privileges at the start of their second consecutive meeting.

Meetings

The following table lists recent and currently scheduled meetings of the QRPH Technical Committee. All times are listed as Central Time. Committee calls use a Webex number sent in an invitation to the meeting. Unless noted otherwise, face-to-face meetings are at RSNA headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois.

HIMSS and RSNA Sponsored Meetings

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Date	Time	Location	Topic	Agenda	Minutes
2016-17 Development Cycle
November 12-13, 2015	All Day	[ihe.webex.com]	Technical Profile Evaluation Meeting	Agenda	Minutes
January 25-29, 2016	All Day	IHE NA Connectathon Cleveland, Ohio	Testing Event
February 15-19, 2016	All Day	[ihe.webex.com]	Volume One Meeting	Agenda	Minutes
February 29-March 4 , 2016	All Day	HIMSS16 Annual Conference Las Vegas, Nevada	Interoperability Showcase
April 11-15, 2016	All Day	IHE European Connectathon Bochum, Germany	Testing Event
April 25-29, 2016	All Day	QRPH Meeting: RSNA HQ [ihe.webex.com]	Public Comment Preparation	Agenda	Minutes
July 18-22, 2016	All Day	QRPH Meeting: RSNA HQ [ihe.webex.com]	Trial Implementation Preparation	Agenda	Minutes
November 10-11, 2016	All Day	QRPH Meeting: RSNA HQ [ihe.webex.com]	Technical Profile Evaluation	Agenda	Minutes