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Approve and authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Agreement with McKesson Technologies Inc. for RelayHealth Software Services in the amount of $1,203,583 for the period January 28, 2014 through June 30, 2019.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors approve and authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Agreement with McKesson Technologies Inc. for RelayHealth Software Services in the amount of $1,203,583 for the period January 28, 2014 through June 30, 2019.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
RelayHealth's SAAS (Software as a Service) cloud-based Enterprise HIE (Health Information Exchange) provides separate healthcare systems throughout a community the ability to access and share the same data.
It is NMC's intent to participate with Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP), through its subsidiary Community Health Innovations (CHI) in using the same RelayHealth software platform, already in use by CHOMP, to create the beginnings of a community Health Information Exchange. This shared HIE will help build a Longitudinal Patient Record (LPR) across the Monterey healthcare community by providing secure health information exchange and enhance care coordination to the population of Monterey County.
This new community HIE will benefit patient care, hospital operations and physician practices while helping the hospital meet Stage II Meaningful Use requirements with the use of a Patient Portal.
The HIE's clinical integration engine will help manage patient identity, patient consent and privacy rules, and clinical terminology mapping across disparate electronic inpatient and outpatient systems.
Year one project milestones include:
* Populating the RelayHealth HIE with the hospitals' information and making it available to physicians within the community.
* Connecting the Monterey Health Department Clinical Services group to the HIE so ...
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