SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- RECOVERY ACT- Meaningful Use Interoperability Deployment
- Notice Date
- 7/28/2010
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- Contracting Office
- NBC - Acquisition Services Directorate 381 Elden Street, Suite 4000 Herndon VA 20170
- ZIP Code
- 20170
- Archive Date
- 7/28/2011
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- Description
- RECOVERY ACT PROJECT: THIS NOTICE IS PROVIDED FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. THIS OPPORTUNITY IS AVAILABLE TO GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA) ALLIANT CONTRACT HOLDERS. SEE E-BUY REQUEST FOR QUOTATION(RFQ) #485426 FOR THE SOLICITATION PACKAGE - Solicitation Number N10PS18374. Project Title: Meaningful Use Interoperability Development and Enterprise Deployment - National Health Information Network/Master Patient Index (NHIN/MPI) The Department of Interior (DOI), National Business Center (NBC), Acquisition Services Directorate (AQD), Herndon Office on the behalf of the Indian Health Service (IHS) is soliciting qualified GSA Alliant Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) firms to submit responses to a RFQ to perform the following types of activities related to software development and deployment: project management, deployment, training planning and implementation, systems and functional analysis, data analysis and logic design, Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS) Ensemble, Cache Object Script (COS) and MUMPS ("M") programming services to support deployment, RPMS software architecture integration and transformation; end user usability analysis; design and messaging programming services; configuration management; testing and quality assurance; technical documentation; and technical training and end user support for designated software for the Meaningful Use Interoperability Development and Enterprise Deployment in accordance with the below requirement background. -Meaningful Use Interoperability Development and Enterprise Deployment Background-The IHS is the principal federal healthcare provider and health advocate for Indian people, and provides a comprehensive health services delivery system for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs). The role of the IHS Office of Information Technology (OIT) is to manage all technology elements for the IHS, including telecommunications, network, security, data warehouse, and RPMS development, deployment, and support. The IHS has long been a pioneer in using computer technology to capture clinical and public health data. Initial development of the IHS electronic medical record (EMR), the RPMS, began nearly 30 years ago, and many facilities have access to decades of personal health information and epidemiological data on local populations. The IHS RPMS is a distributed electronic information system designed to enhance the patient reporting capabilities of IHS healthcare facilities throughout the United States and to provide high-quality healthcare by offering accurate, timely, and comprehensive clinical and administrative information to local healthcare providers and program managers. RPMS includes clinical, administrative, and financial information on patients and resources integrated into a suite of over 60 software applications. The clinical point-of-care graphical user interface, RPMS Electronic Health Record (EHR), was released in 2004 and has been implemented throughout all IHS facilities and many Tribal and Urban programs. - Meaningful Use and RPMS Interoperability-One of the primary goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is to promote the adoption of interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) and subsequently develop a national health information network to securely exchange data. "Meaningful Use" is a term for a recent Federal initiative called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act that is included in the ARRA of 2009. This initiative is intended to facilitate the appropriate use and exchange of health information technology by providing guidelines on how EHRs should be used by health care providers and hospitals to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of the health care system. On January 13, 2010 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that defined the new certification criteria EHRs must meet in order to be certified and support Stage 1 Meaningful Use. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) that defined the requirements for achieving meaningful use of a certified EHR and established incentive programs beginning in 2011 for eligible providers and hospitals that achieve meaningful use of certified EHRs. Meaningful Use will happen in three stages: Stage 1 applies to 2011-2012, Stage 2 applies to 2013-2014 and Stage 3 applies 2015 and thereafter. The first steps are to have a certified EHR and to demonstrate that it is being used to meet the requirements for interoperability, improving patient safety and providing quality clinical and population health care services. As defined by CMS, it will use two types of performance measures to determine if Meaningful Use has been achieved: health information technology (IT) functionality measures and clinical quality measures. This RFQ is for Stage 1 of Meaningful Use. Some of the Health IT Functionality measures show how well the patient's information can be shared with other health care systems, i.e., "interoperability." Increased interoperability among EHRs where information is exchanged according to established national standards will ultimately allow health care providers to have access to a complete view of the patient's medical history, rather than a snapshot of the care that has occurred only at the provider's own health care facility. The adoption of meaningful use criteria by the IHS for its RPMS EHR will modernize and extend health information throughout Indian country and the United States by providing a certified tool to IHS healthcare facilities. Adoption of meaningful use will also provide financial incentives from both Medicare and Medicaid starting in 2011/2012. In order to ensure that its customers are positioned to be eligible in 2011 for financial incentives based on meaningful use of certified EHR, the IHS OIT intends to seek re-certification of RPMS as an Ambulatory EHR, as well as initial certification of RPMS under the Inpatient EHR criteria, both in 2010 under the 2011 ONC certification criteria. Meeting Interoperability with Nationwide Health Information Network - Health Information Exchange and Master Patient Index A key component of interoperability is to plan and establish a fully operational IHS enterprise-wide NHIN Health Information Exchange (NHIE). The IHS NHIE will provide connectivity to external agencies and internal facilities for the secure exchange of relevant patient data using the NHIN gateway. NHIN is a set of standards, services and policies that enables secure health information exchange over the Internet. The NHIN will provide a foundation for the exchange of Health IT across diverse entities, within communities and across the country, helping to achieve the goals of the HITECH Act and EHR certification requirements for Meaningful use. As part of the NHIN, IHS will be implementing a MPI solution. An MPI identifies persons (patients) across disparate registration, scheduling, financial, and clinical systems and is needed for information exchange to consolidate the patient list from the various IHS RPMS databases. To eliminate duplicate identifications, the MPI utilizes matching algorithms to recognize related patient information and links them together under an Enterprise ID in a comprehensive master index. This interoperability project will help to improve the quality of care for American Indians, which can be achieved through obtaining an overall view of the patients medical history that will: -Increase patient safety -Reduce medical errors/adverse events -Enhance decision-making -Increase efficiency & effectiveness Additionally, IHS will be able to use the vast amount of collected data more effectively. In the future, this initial investment in MPI and NHIN will permit more accurate agency budget projections and enhance the calculation of performance indicators. Under previous contracts, IHS has evaluated, tested and further developed the Sun Mural MPI solution. This was selected as the IHS solution for an MPI application which must now be implemented at all IHS facilities in order to meet the data exchange standards specific to meaningful use certification of an electronic health record. If you are qualified and interested in competing for this effort, you may participate by submitting a response to the GSA E-Buy RFQ as posted on the GSA E-Buy system (See E-Buy RFQ # 485426). E-mailed responses will not be honored.
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