QRPH Strategic Planning

This page documents the activities of the IHE Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH) domain in doing strategic planning.

Strategic Priorities

The QRPH domain currently plans to work in the following areas:

• Improve information exchange between different healthcare providers by defining CDA implementation guides for different subspecialites in Cardiology (eg. Cardiac Catherization, Electrophysiology)
• Usage of structured data through transformation of key data elements into CDA document format for preparation of Quality-Registry submissions (e.g. NCDR-ICD, NCDR-CATH/PCI, PINNACLE)
• Define EP Lab workflow and data exchange
• Incorporate information exchange with EMR systems into Cardiology workflows
• Promote use of Cardiology data in IHE ITI Cross-Enterprise document sharing profiles
• Promote wider adoption of IHE Cardiology-developed profiles (e.g. IEO, DRPT) by other domains
• Define profiles supporting Meaningful Use
• Promote increased adoption of IHE profiles in user and vendor communities

Categories

The QRPH domain has defined the following categories to organize the profiles it has published thus far.

Category	Description	QRPH profiles (2011)
Patient and Provider Identity	Profiles in the Patient and Provider Identity category support the management of patient, provider and healthcare organization identity including their localization. This includes the ability to look up, cross-reference, update, remove, merge, link and general management of identities.	PIX, PDQ, PAM, PWP, XCPD, HPD, PIX/PDQ HL7 v3, XPID
Health Record Sharing	Profiles in the Health Record Sharing category support the ability to share patient specific healthcare information within and across Enterprises. This includes the ability to submit, locate/list, push, pull and retrieve patient specific healthcare information.	XCA, XDM, XDR, XDS, XDS-SD, MPQ, RID, XCF
Security and Privacy	Profiles in the Security and Privacy category support the ability to ensure that healthcare information is managed consistent with a reasonable set of security and privacy policies.	ATNA, BPPC, XUA, DSG, EUA, DEN
Workflow Enablers	Profiles in the Workflow Enablers category support standard sequences for performing workflow activities.	DRR, DSUB, NAV, PSA, RFD, XDW
Support Management	Profiles in the support management category support the ability to share information needed for interoperable healthcare management such as clinical coding, technical or IT management information	CT, SVS

Capabilities

The QRPH domain has identified the following areas of expertise and weaknesses.

Category	Areas of expertise	Areas of weakness
Technology	Security, Privacy, XDS, SOAP, Directories, Workflow, Transports, Network, Media, email, Metadata, Web Wervices	HL7 v2 & v3 messaging
Standards Development Organizations	W3C, OASIS, HL7	DICOM, ISO
Geographic Regions	North America, Europe	Asia, South America

QRPH Liaisons

The following table describes the liaisons from QRPH to other IHE domains.

Domain Committee Liaison Reports

Domain	Liason
Anatomic Pathology
Cardiology
Eye Care	Rob Horn
Laboratory
Pathology
Patient Care Coordination	Keith Boone
Patient Care Devices	Dan Trainor
Pharmacy	Geert Clays
Quality, Research, Public Health	Lori Fourquet
Radiation Oncology
Radiology

Cross-Domain Strategic Planning Work Group

Quality, Research and Public Health