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 exports from healthcare systems through development of CDA implementation guides and appropriate 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.
Capabilities
The QRPH domain has defined the following categories to organize the profiles it has published thus far.
| Category | Description | QRPH profiles (2011) |
|---|---|---|
| Health Record Sharing | Profiles in the Health Record Sharing category support the ability to share patient specific 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. | |
| Workflow Enablers | Profiles in the Workflow Enablers category support standard sequences for performing workflow activities. | RPE, CRPC |
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|
| Information Technology Infrastructure | Lori Fourquet |
| Cardiology | Harry Solomon |
| Laboratory | Wendy Blumenthal |
| Patient Care Coordination | Patty Craig |
| Patient Care Devices | Michael Celeste |
| Radiology | Chris Carr |