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a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an Agreement with Medical Information Technology, Inc. for seven software interfaces allowing exchange of electronic patient data from various third-party software systems throughout NMC with NMC's MEDITECH system, for a total amount not to exceed $97,034 effective on date of County's execution and terminable with sixty (60) days' written notice; and
b. Accept the non-standard Agreement terms and conditions, including insurance and indemnification provisions, as recommended by NMC's CEO.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute an Agreement with Medical Information Technology, Inc. for seven software interfaces allowing exchange of electronic patient data from various third-party software systems throughout NMC with NMC's MEDITECH system, for a total amount not to exceed $97,034 effective on date of County's execution and terminable with sixty (60) days' written notice.
b. Accept the non-standard Agreement terms and conditions, including insurance and indemnification provisions, as recommended by NMC's CEO.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) is NMC's primary Health Care Information System Software (HCIS- Electronic Medical Records) and therefore NMC's primary source of electronic patient data.
Because of the complexity of patient care and its documentation, there are some software applications needs that are not provided by the MEDITECH suite of products, yet are needed for routine patient care and services. When these other software applications are required it is necessary for these applications to exchange data with MEDITECH via interfaces. NMC currently has multiple active interfaces to and from MEDITECH and third party software such as PACS, our radiology imagining an...
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