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a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an agreement with Inspirata, Inc. for e-path licensing and support to provide cancer registry reporting and data abstraction, services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $25,000 with an agreement term December 22, 2024 through December 21, 2025.
b. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard contract provisions within the service agreement.
c. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard contract provisions within the business associate agreement.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an agreement with Inspirata, Inc. for e-path licensing and support to provide cancer registry reporting and data abstraction, services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $25,000 with an agreement term December 22, 2024 through December 21, 2025.
b. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard contract provisions within the service agreement.
c. Approve the NMC’s Chief Executive Officer’s recommendation to accept non-standard contract provisions within the business associate agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Health and Safety Code 103885, which governs cancer reporting by entities diagnosing and treating cancer, requires pathologists diagnosing cancer to provide cancer pathology reports to the California Cancer Registry (CCR) electronically. NMC is fulfilling this regulatory requirement through a partnership with Inspirata, Inc., who owns and operates the interface that receives pathology data from NMC, packages it, and transmits the data to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program in coordination with one of the three CA SEER Registries. Previously, there was a coordination to ...
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