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Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment no. 5 to the agreement (A-13067) with Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) for the addition of MD Staff, Pharmacy Automation, and Medinet interfaces for the MEDITECH system at NMC, adding $65,818 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $299,467, with no change to the implementation term of March 22, 2016 through April 29, 2020.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment no. 5 to the agreement (A-13067) with Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) for the addition of MD Staff, Pharmacy Automation, and Medinet interfaces for the MEDITECH system at NMC, adding $65,818 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $299,467, with no change to the implementation term of March 22, 2016 through April 29, 2020.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) provides NMC with a Health Care Information System (HCIS) for Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and is NMC's primary source of electronic patient data.
Because of the complexity of patient care and its documentation, there are some software application needs that are not provided by the MEDITECH suite of products. When these other software applications are required, it is often necessary for these applications to exchange data with MEDITECH via interfaces. NMC currently has multiple active interfaces to and from MEDITECH and third party software such as our radiology imagining and storage system, Patient Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and our perinatal fetal monitoring system, Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX). As new specialized software becomes available or is required, NMC subsequently needs to interface these new applications with MEDITECH.
Natividad is requesting approval to purchase the...
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