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.

QRPH Development Continuous Cycle

The Quality, Research and Public Health Committee has moved to a continuous development cycle. The three 4-day face-to-face working meetings in the first half of the calendar year, plus two 2-day selection meetings in the last calendar quarter, are replaced by four 4-day working meetings evenly spaced through the year. A portion of each meeting is devoted to planning tasks such as review and prioritizing of proposals, and the rest of the meeting would operate similar to our current technical meetings, except each work item could be in a different phase (volume 1 prep, public comment prep, TI prep).

Additional process details can be found here.

Timeline: 2020-2021 Planning and Development Cycle (calendar year 2019-2020)

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2019-2020 calendar year.

The Timeline shows the main milestones of the development cycle, 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).

Scheduled	Activity
2019
September 3	Call for Profile/White Paper Proposals Opens: Submit to qrph@ihe.net
October 17	Call for Proposals Closes
October 24	Committee participates in Planning Committee's Proposal Review
October 31	Committee participates in Planning Committee's Proposal Review
November 11-14	Proposal Detailed Evaluation Meeting - Planning and Technical Committee Meeting in Oak Brook, IL
2020
January 20-24	Test implementations at IHE North American Connectathon 2020 - HIMSS Innovation Center, Cleveland OH
February 17-20	TC Volume 1 Finalization Meeting - Location TBD
March 9-13	HIMSS Annual Meeting - Orlando, Florida
March 23-27,	IHE European Connectathon - Brussels, Belgium
May 4-7	TC Public Comment Meeting
July 20-23	Preparation for Trial Implementation and Issuance Meeting - Oak Brook, IL

QRPH Domain Planning and Technical Development Cycle Master Schedule by Calendar Year

Older Schedules

Roadmap

Change proposals
- Outstanding Change Proposal List

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 Submitted 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.