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Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 2 to the agreement with Applied Statistics & Management Inc. for subscription to access web-based medical staff database services for verifying and tracking medical care provider licenses and adding $12,834 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $112,634, with no changes to the term of the Agreement July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 2 to the agreement with Applied Statistics & Management Inc. for subscription to access web-based medical staff database services for verifying and tracking medical care provider licenses and adding $12,834 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $112,634, with no changes to the term of the Agreement July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Applied Statistics' MD-Staff software is an enterprise level healthcare provider credentialing system that Natividad Medical Center (NMC) utilizes to automate the credentialing process at the hospital. MD-Staff is built on a relational database which allows NMC to store all required credentialing information related to our providers.
In order to help reduce the amount of paperwork at NMC, MD-Staff integrates state license verification with websites from nearly every state. With MD-Staff, the hospital is able to visit a state license website, verify the provider's license, and capture information such as license number, expiration date, and a copy of the license verification. MD-Staff's ability to collect and report providers' clinical privileges takes NMC a step further towards paperless credentialing.
This amendment to the Applied Statistics agreement would add an interface from MD-Staff through a VPN tunnel to NMC's Electronic Medical Record (EMR) syste...
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