Quality, Research and Public Health Technical Committee
The Quality, Research and Public Health (QRPH) Technical Committee is part of the Quality, Research and Public Health Domain and works in coordination with the Quality, Research and Public Health Planning Committee. Its activities include development and maintenance of the QRPH Technical Framework and supplements.
Current Activities
Profile Development 2012-2013
The following profile supplements were identified for development:
- EHDI-WD
- Research Subject Matching
- DEX
- Vital Records
- BMI
- Plus white papers:
Profile Development 2011-2012
The following profile supplements were identified for development or revision and republication.
Profile Development 2010-2011
The following profile supplements were identified for development or revision and republication. A dashboard tracking the status of development for each of these profiles is available here.
- 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.
Working Documents
Sample Brief Profile Proposal Page
Roster
QRPH is currently operating under a combined Planning and Technical Committee. The roster for the combined QRPH Planning/Technical Committee is available here.
The co-chairs of the committees are Didi Davis, Landen Bain and Amit Popat.
The roster consists of representatives of IHE member organizations. Participation is voluntary and open to all concerned stakeholders. You can express interest in participating and address other inquiries by email to secretary@ihe.net.
QRPH Registry
Voting Privileges
You need to participate in order to maintain voting rights. IHE governance dictates that voting privileges requires participation in committee meetings. Please visit concerning Voting Privileges
Representatives with voting privileges may vote and count towards quorum.
Voting Privileges are based on the Roster Role and attendance of the Member Organization for this committee.
NOTE: New Member Organizations are granted Voting Privileges at the start of their second consecutive meeting.
Meetings
The following table lists recent and currently scheduled meetings of the QRPH Technical Committee. All times are listed as Central Time. Committee calls use a Webex number sent in an invitation to the meeting. Unless noted otherwise, face-to-face meetings are at RSNA headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois. Please consult the domain committee calendar for general IHE meeting information.