County of Monterey - File #: A 19-067

• File #: A 19-067
• Name: Medical Information Technology, Inc. Amendment 4
• Type: BoS Agreement
• Status: Passed - Natividad Medical Center
• File created: 3/27/2019
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 4/23/2019
• Title: Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment no. 4 to the agreement (A-13067) with Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) for the addition of a EMPI interface for the MEDITECH system at NMC, adding $65,540 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $233,649, and with an implementation term effective on April 30, 2019 through April 29, 2020, for a revised full agreement term of March 22, 2016 through April 29, 2020.
• Related files: A 16-037, A 16-380, A 17-447, A 18-471, A 22-161

Date	Action By	Action	Result
4/23/2019	Board of Supervisors	approved - natividad medical center	Pass

Title
Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment no. 4 to the agreement (A-13067) with Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) for the addition of a EMPI interface for the MEDITECH system at NMC, adding $65,540 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $233,649, and with an implementation term effective on April 30, 2019 through April 29, 2020, for a revised full agreement term of March 22, 2016 through April 29, 2020.
Report
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. 4 to the agreement (A-13067) with Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) for the addition of a EMPI interface for the MEDITECH system at NMC, adding $65,540 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $233,649, and with an implementation term effective on April 30, 2019 through April 29, 2020, for a revised full agreement term of March 22, 2016 through April 29, 2020.

SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:

Medical Information Technology, Inc. (MEDITECH) provides NMC with a Health Care Information System (HCIS) for Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and is NMC's primary source of electronic patient data.

Because of the complexity of patient care and its documentation, there are some software application needs that are not provided by the MEDITECH suite of products. 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 our radiology imagining and storage system, Patient Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and our perinatal fetal monitoring system, Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX). As new specialized software becomes available or is required, NMC subsequently needs to interface these new appl...