Quality, Research and Public Health

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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:


Timeline: 2011-2012 Development Cycle

The Timeline shows the Domain 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. In addition, there is a general 18 month overlapping timeline from conception of idea through planning, non-technical, technical, public comment, publication, and Connectathon, including relevant dates this year:

  • summer to early fall (week of July 18, 2011 – September 5, 2011): open call for proposals
  • Prior to October (September 5, 2011): proposal due to QRPH planning committee
  • October (October 11-13, 2011): face-to-face of QRPH planning committee to prioritize proposals.
  • Author revises and submits a “detailed” proposal in early November (this year due November 7th).
  • November: face-to-face; technical committee meets to assess bandwidth and ability to accomplish QRPH planning committee priorities, work begins on volume 1 based on this
  • Prior to February: 2w-1mo. Prior to February face-to-face, volume 1 (non-technical) should be completed and submitted
  • February face-to-face: meets to discuss and move forward with technical volumes
  • 1 week prior to April meeting: submit technical proposals
  • April: face-to-face for VOTE by QRPH technical committee to publish for comment
  • June-July: available for public comment, involve stakeholders
  • July: Face-to-face QRPH technical committee to move towards finalizing technical volumes
  • August: Publish technical volumes to allow time for vendors to prepare for connectathon
  • Connectathon in December/ January (January 9-13, 2012 in Chicago for prior years proposals)

Meetings and Conference Calls 2011-2012

Specific meetings and their agendas and minutes are listed on the page of the relevant Committee. A calendar of events can be found at [QRPH Calendar]

[All times in Central US time]

Timeframe Activity Scheduled Location
2012

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 2011-2012 cycle:

  • Clinical Research Document (CRD) describes the content pertinent to the clinical research use case required within the Retrieve Form for Data-Capture (RFD) pre-population parameter.
  • Drug Safety Content (DSC) describes the content pertinent to the drug safety use case required within the Retrieve Form for Data-Capture (RFD) pre-population parameter.
  • Early Hearing Care Plan (EHCP) assists with the early detection, documentation of and intervention for hearing loss by enabling electronic communication of care plan content and instructions available to all authorized providers of care as jurisdictionally directed by the Public Health EHDI Program.
  • Maternal Child Health-Birth and Fetal Death Reporting (MCH-BFDrpt) defines the EHR content that may be used to pre-populate and transmit birth and fetal death information to vital records systems for vital registration purposes.
  • Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository – Cancer Registry (PRPH-Ca) defines the data elements to be retrieved from the EMR and transmitted to the cancer registry or to a healthcare provider.
  • Retrieve Process for Execution (RPE) enables a healthcare provider to access a process definition, such as a research protocol and to execute automated activities, without leaving an EMR session.

Minutes

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


Committee Rosters


Committee Distribution Lists

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

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