Notice ID: 36C24723Q0114
Description
The subscription with Carolina ehealth Alliance (CeHA) will provide the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center (RHJVAMC) with access to a secure cloud-based portal to bidirectionally share and obtain real time, critical veteran clinical care data from South Carolina Health systems outside the VA.
This contract will be awarded as a yearly subscription. The first-year cost includes support from the CeHA team to help our team set up this secure cloud-based connection. This will be a recurring yearly subscription where they CeHA team will maintain the secure cloud-based system and trouble shoot any issues with log in, access and sharing data when needed. The subscription will occur from date of signed contract (to be determined) for a 12-month period of time from this date. Exact dates of service will be determined and agreed upon by RHJVAMC and CeHA following contract award.
Base Year POP: 11/1/2022 – 10/31/2023
Option Year 1 POP: 11/1/2023 – 10/31/2024
Option Year 2 POP: 11/1/2024 – 10/31/2025
Option Year 3 POP: 11/1/2025 – 10/31/2026
Option Year 4 POP: 11/1/2026 – 10/31/2027
Access to CeHA based electronic health information exchange for bidirectional data exchange.
The CeHA health information exchange will provide RHJVAMC with reduction in the following patient safety errors:
- Veterans having duplicative care (scans, testing, labs costing money), avoidable admissions in outside facilities due to lack of records
- Quality- Fragmented care and increased errors because of lack of access, medication list, allergies.
- When you have access to HIE the ED length of stay is reduced by 40% admitted mostly by avoiding CT scan done the prior day. Sickle cell patients having information on baseline hemoglobin.
- Community acquired pneumonia- put on antibiotics and failed it but put on the same antibiotic because no timely record access.
- High numbers of canceled and delayed consults due to lack of record access from other facilities
CeHA will have statewide healthcare system coverage by October 2022.
