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a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Renewal and Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Consolidated Agreement (numbers A-12282 and A-12063) with Truven Health Analytics Inc. for additional Software Services at NMC, for the period of September 30, 2013 through June 30, 2016, for a cost of $40,948 and for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $747,344 (a decrease of $154,811) in the aggregate.
b. Authorize non-standard travel expense language to the Monterey County Travel Policy, whereby copies of receipts associated with reimbursable travel expenses will be submitted instead of originals.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute Renewal and Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Consolidated Agreement (numbers A-12282 and A-12063) with Truven Health Analytics Inc. for additional Software Services at NMC, for the period of September 30, 2013 through June 30, 2016, for a cost of $40,948 and for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $747,344 (a decrease of $154,811) in the aggregate.
b. Authorize non-standard travel expense language to the Monterey County Travel Policy, whereby copies of receipts associated with reimbursable travel expenses will be submitted instead of originals
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 NMC 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 NMC to: evaluate our performance as compared to peer hospitals;...
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