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Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Renewed, Amended and Consolidated Agreement with Truven Health Analytics Inc. for Meaningful Use Quality Manager (A-12282) and Care Discovery Transform Tool (A-12063) Services at NMC, for the period October 8, 2013 through June 30, 2016 and adding $313,845 (over three years) for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $902,155 in the aggregate.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Renewed, Amended and Consolidated Agreement with Truven Health Analytics Inc. for Meaningful Use Quality Manager (A-12282) and Care Discovery Transform Tool (A-12063) Services at NMC, for the period October 8, 2013 through June 30, 2016 and adding $313,845 (over three years) for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $902,155 in the aggregate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Truven Health Analytics Inc. offers a number of products under their Care Discovery Solutions platform: 1) Care Discovery Clinical Suite, 2) Care Discovery Quality Measures, and 3) Meaningful Use Quality Manager.
The Care Discovery Clinical Suite is a database and reporting system that provides Natividad Medical Center with a dashboard of critical benchmarks and objective, fact-based information needed to make quick, confident decisions in support of the hospital's quality improvement initiatives. The database and reporting system allows Natividad Medical Center to: evaluate our performance as compared to peer hospitals; and evaluate our outcomes including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) national indicators, complications, and risk-adjusted mortality and resource metrics. It provides NMC with the capability to drill into transaction-level details to identify specific opportunities for improving the process of care. The database and reporting system allows NMC to compare patient-ca...
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