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

Call for Proposals

QRPH Call for Proposals is open through September 27, 2016. Proposals should be submitted to qrph@ihe.net using this Brief Profile Proposal Template. They should address the following:

• 1. What is the problem and how does it look in practice (use case)?
• 2. How should things look in practice if it were fixed?
• 3. What specific standards could be used to solve the problem, if known?
• 4. If possible, give some indication of the business case for solving the problem (e.g., quantify the cost).

It is strongly recommended that the proposal include the name of a candidate editor for the profile should it be selected for development.

Timeline: 2017-2018 Planning and Development Cycle (calendar year 2016-2017)

The following table outlines the general activities and steps planned for the 2016-2017 calendar year. Face to face meeting logistics will be posted at ITI, PCC & QRPH Development Cycle Meetings.

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
2016
August 11	Call for Profile/White Paper Proposals Announced, see Domain News Announcements, submit to qrph@ihe.net.
September 27	Call for Proposals Closes
October	Committee participates in Planning Committee's Proposal Review Webinars
October 18-19	2017-2018 Development Cycle Planning Proposal Evaluation Kickoff - Planning Committee Meeting
November 16-17	Technical Proposal Evaluation Meeting - Technical Committee Meeting in Oak Brook, IL
2017
January 23-27	Test implementations at IHE North American Connectathon 2017 - HIMSS Innovation Center, Cleveland OH
February 6-9	Volume One Finalization Meeting - Naples, Italy
February 19-23	HIMSS Annual Meeting - Orlando, Florida
April 3-7	IHE Europe Connectathon - Venice, Italy
April 24-28	Preparations for Public Comment and Issuance Meeting
July 17-20	Preparation for Trial Implementation and Issuance Meeting

• QRPH 2016-2017 Planning and Development Cycle (calendar year 2015-2016)

Roadmap

The matrix tracking the status of development for profiles will be 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.

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

• 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