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Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Amendment #6 to the Agreement (A-11879) with Beacon Partners Inc., for Meditech Clinical Modules, Meditech 5.66 Software Upgrade, and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Implementation and Support Services at NMC, extending the Agreement to April 15, 2015 and adding $3,022,790 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $4,055,870 in the aggregate.
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Amendment #6 to the Agreement (A-11879) with Beacon Partners Inc., for Meditech Clinical Modules, Meditech 5.66 Software Upgrade, and Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) Implementation and Support Services at NMC, extending the Agreement to April 15, 2015 and adding $3,022,790 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $4,055,870 in the aggregate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
CPOE is an essential part to meeting the requirements of the mandated, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, for an Electronic Health Record (EHR) System (in NMC's case MediTech). CPOE is the most clinically critical of all Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementations, due to its potential impact on morbidity and mortality of NMC patients. In a study reviewing CPOE implementation by the Lucille Packard Hospital, implementation of CPOE resulted in a 20% reduction in mortality. In another study from the University of Pittsburg, where CPOE implementation was sub-optimal; there was an increase in mortality from 2.80 to 6.57%.
For the last several years NMC has purchased, and continues to purchase, necessary modules of MediTech in order to systematically build a fully operational EHR. Modules of MediTech, in turn, meet the ongoing mandated Medicaid and Medicare Meaningful Use requirements via the HITECH Act legislated by the federal government. ...
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