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 healthcare providers and organizations that depend on healthcare data, particularly in public health, quality reporting, and medical research.
- Define appropriate content exports from healthcare systems through development of CDA implementation guides and appropriate semantic mappings to complementary specifications such as CDISC's Operational Data Model, Quality Data Model, etc.
- Develop ways to automate collaborative workflow between healthcare systems and secondary use systems in quality, research, and public health.
- Enable a data life cycle of capture, transformation, and transfer that leads to appropriate data submital appropriate government agencies, including the US agencies FDA, CDC, and ONC, and including corresponding international agencies.
- Promote widespread adoption and implementation of IHE QRPH-developed profiles.
- The dominant themes for the next few years will involve work around Public Health Cancer Registry reporting, Maternal Child Health, Early Hearing Screening, identification of gaps in standards for Quality Reporting, and Clinical research.
Capabilities
The QRPH domain has defined the following categories to organize the profiles it has published thus far.
Capabilities | Description | QRPH profiles (2011) |
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Health Record Sharing | Profiles in the Health Record Sharing category support the ability to share patient specific and aggregated healthcare information between healthcare providers and organizations that depend on healthcare data. This includes the ability to submit, locate/list, push, pull and retrieve patient specific healthcare information. | CRD, DSC, PRPH-Ca, EHDI, MCH, BFDR, NANI |
Workflow Enablers | Profiles in the Workflow Enablers category support standard sequences for performing workflow activities. | RPE, CRPC, NANI |
Semantic Enablers | Profiles in the semantic enablers category support the ability to share information needed for interoperability between healthcare and secondary use agencies. This category includes clinical coding, technical or IT management information. | CRD, DSC, PRPH-Ca, EHCP, EHDI, MCH, BFDR, HBS |
Categories
The QRPH domain has identified the following areas of expertise and weaknesses.
Category | Areas of expertise | Areas of outreach |
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Quality | Accreditation, Quality measure development and reporting, Quality reporting workflow | CMS, ONC, HL7 (QRDA, HQMF, PQRS, QDM) NQF, International |
Research | CDISC standards (ODM, CDASH), FDA regulations (21 CFR 11, eSource), clinical research execution and monitoring. | CDISC, FDA, SHARP, HL7, EHR4CR, International |
Public Health | Public health reporting in North America (cancer, immunization, newborn reporting). | PHDSC, CDC, International |
QRPH Liaisons
The following table describes the liaisons from QRPH to other IHE domains.
Domain Committee Liaison Reports
Domain | Liason |
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Information Technology Infrastructure | Lori Fourquet |
Cardiology | Harry Solomon |
Laboratory | Wendy Blumenthal |
Patient Care Coordination | Patty Craig |
Patient Care Devices | Michael Celeste |
Radiology | Chris Carr |