Quality, Research and Public Health

IHE Quality, Research and Public Health Domain (QRPH) addresses the infrastructure and content necessary to:

• share information relevant to quality improvement,
• improve the liaison between the primary care system and clinical research and
• provide population base health surveillance.

The three distinct components of the QRPH domain are all reliant on the secondary use of data gathered in clinical care.

The work of QRPH enables the stakeholders to focus on the workflow cycle of queries for data and selection of population cohorts from within the clinical record. In addition, QRPH incorporates the output from the query specification within the clinical system workflow to enable clinical decision support and defines profiles for adverse event reporting, especially with reference to medication-related adverse outcomes.

Sponsors

QRPH is sponsored by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and manages the Quality Profiles.

There are two committees. For details regarding activities of each, select the appropriate link below:

• The Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee
• The Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee

Timeline: 2014-2015 Planning and Development Cycle

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2014-2015 year. Details on the 2014-2015 QRPH facee-to-face meetings is available at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings.

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee and Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee pages.

Dates and times are U.S. Central Time (Chicago).

Timeframe	Activity
2014
July 27, 2013	Call for Profile/White Paper Proposals Announced, see Domain News Announcements
Spetember 29, 2013	Profile Proposals Due to Planning Co-Chairs
September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2013	Profile Presentation Webinars
October 9&10	QRPH Planning Committee
November 12&13	QRPH Technical Committee evaluation of PC recommendations
TBD (A tcon December 2013 if face to face meeting do not resolve selection)	QRPH Joint Planning/Technical Committee - Decision mtg to select Proposals
2014
January/February	Test implementations at 2014 U.S. Connectathon
April	Test implementations at 2014 European Connectathon
Apr/May	Prepare Profiles for public comment
June	Publication of Public Comment Supplements
Aug.	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements
Aug.	Publication of Final Text Technical Framework

Timeline: 2013-2014 Planning and Development Cycle

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2013-2014 year. Details on the 2013-2014 QRPH face-to-face meetings is available at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings.

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee and Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee pages.

Dates and times are U.S. Central Time (Chicago).

2013-2014 Planning and Development Cycle

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2013-2014 year. Details on the 2013-2014 QRPH face-to-face meetings is available at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings. Details regarding Planning Committee meetings and Technical Committee Meetings are found at the respective links.

Timeline: 2013-2014 Planning and Development Cycle

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2013-2014 year. Details on the 2013-2014 QRPH face-to-face meetings is available at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings.

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, the Timeframe when they are typically expected to happen, and the actual date/time/location they have been Scheduled for this year. Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are generally listed on the Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee and Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee pages.

Dates and times are U.S. Central Time (Chicago).

2013-2014 Planning and Development Cycle

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2013-2014 year. Details on the 2013-2014 QRPH face-to-face meetings is available at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings. Details regarding Planning Committee meetings and Technical Committee Meetings are found at the respective links.

Timeframe	Activity
2013
July 27, 2013	Call for Profile/White Paper Proposals Announced, see Domain News Announcements
Spetember 29, 2013	Profile Proposals Due to Planning Co-Chairs
September 13, 20, 27 and October 4, 2013	Profile Presentation Webinars
October 9&10	QRPH Planning Committee
November 12&13	QRPH Technical Committee evaluation of PC recommendations
TBD (A tcon December 2013 if face to face meeting do not resolve selection)	QRPH Joint Planning/Technical Committee - Decision mtg to select Proposals
2014
January/February	Test implementations at 2014 U.S. Connectathon
April	Test implementations at 2014 European Connectathon
Apr/May	Prepare Profiles for public comment
June	Publication of Public Comment Supplements
Aug.	Publication of Trial Implementation Supplements
Aug.	Publication of Final Text Technical Framework

Roadmap

The matrix tracking the status of development for each of these profiles is available here.

QRPH current published documents can be found here.

Change Proposals

The Quality Research and Public Health domain committee follows the general IHE Change Proposal Process. QRPH specific details are listed below:

• CPs should be developed using the standard change proposal template.
• Submit incoming CP's to the Incoming Directory. You may choose to do so in one of two ways:
  1. E-mail the QRPH Technical Committee co-chair in charge of CPs (check Committees for current co-chair - subject the e-mail as "New QRPH CP")
  2. Directly update the directory if you have access to the ftp write password and e-mail the QRPH co-chairs to let them know of the new CP.
• The CPs are tracked on a Google Docs spreadsheet Change Proposals.

Current Domain Activities

The Quality, Research and Public Health Domain is pleased to announce the following Profiles to be developed during the 2013-2014 cycle:

• Birth and Fetal Death Reporting Enhanced (BFDR-E) Profile will extend the existing BFDR profile by specifying the mapping from the standard content captured by BFDR to both the HL7 Version 2.5.1: Birth & Fetal Death Reporting IG I and the HL7 CDA R2 BFDR (US Realm).

• Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Profile will add two additional CDA documents, namely Newborn Hearing Screening Outcome Report and Screening Result Report, and additional transaction to communicate an HL7 v2.6 Hearing Screening Message from the Order Filler to the Order Placer. As a result of this work, changes to the previously developed EHCP document specification will be updated to align with the screening result observation and outcome data representations.

• Family Planning (FP) Profile will define structured data capture in EHRs to facilitate interoperable exchange of information important for federal reporting requirements, measurement of clinical quality, and monitoring and evaluation of family planning programs.

• Structured Data Capture Content (SDC) Profile provides a secure method for which IHE Retrieve Form for Data Capture (RFD) can be utilized, along with additional Common Data Element (CDE) guidance and Meta-model for Framework Interoperability (MFI) form compliance, for exchanging EHR data.

Minutes

See the respective committee pages for agenda and minutes of each meeting or tcon.

• The Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee
• The Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee

Committee Rosters

• Combined QRPH Planning and Technical Committee Roster (Google Docs)

Committee Distribution Lists

Subscribe to the QRPH domain committee lists by visiting the Google Group sites linked below:

• QRPH Technical Committe Google Group
• QRPH Planning Committe Google Group

• QRPH Archive