SOURCES SOUGHT
R -- Health IT Community Tracking
- Notice Date
- 5/3/2005
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 541611
— Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD, 20850
- ZIP Code
- 20850
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-05-0007
- Response Due
- 5/17/2005
- Archive Date
- 6/1/2005
- Description
- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Center for Studying Health Systems Change, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW #550, Washington, DC 20024. The purpose of this task order contract is to fund studies of technology adoption in the context of data sharing and health systems change. One technology we anticipate studying in depth is electronic prescribing. The organization will conduct site visits at some of their longitudinal study sites to evaluate technology adoption, and provide AHRQ with issue briefs and data summaries. These studies are a subset of a larger, longitudinal study conducted over the past decade by the Center for Studying Health Systems Change (HSC). The study results will inform AHRQ's understanding of benefits and barriers to technology adoption, with a concentration on network effects. The estimated period of performance for this task order contract is 5 years. HSC's unique focus is on understanding how private health care markets operate locally and nationally and how decisions in the private sector interact with public policy to affect the financing and delivery of health care. The core of HSC's efforts to date has been the Community Tracking Study (CTS), a set of periodic site visits and surveys that allows researchers to track health system changes locally and nationally. This longitudinal community-based research design is unique to HSC. The baseline data that come from 10 years of experience in tracking the health system provide great value in monitoring recent market developments and judging their implications for people. A cornerstone of HSC's work has been providing policy makers with cutting edge information about the ongoing changes in the health care system nationally and in local communities gathered through four rounds of site visits from 1996 to 2003. A fifth round of site visits began in January 2005. HSC has been tracking developments in the same 12 communities, which were randomly selected to be nationally representative of metropolitan areas with populations of more than 200,000. In this large scale qualitative research effort, over 1000 interviews are conducted each round, in-person and on the telephone with a wide array of stakeholders in the health care system, including hospital and health plan executives, leaders of major physician groups, safety net providers, benefits consultants, employers and state and local policy makers. In each round, in addition to identifying major changes in the health care system, HSC examines in depth emerging topics of interest to policy makers. During the ongoing round of site visits, HSC is exploring the use of IT to share clinical data among providers. With current information on IT adoption and on the broader changes occurring in the health care system, HSC is uniquely situated to investigate the adoption and use of new technologies such as e-Prescribing in physicians' offices. The ongoing study on clinical data exchange will be the first research to focus on this type of IT and the first to study IT adoption at the community level, and will provide important context. The studies AHRQ commissions from HSC will draw on these baseline IT findings in 12 communities as well as HSC's CTS longitudinal physician survey data on IT adoption. Designing studies that follow on to the core HSC site visits allows AHRQ to leverage HSC's respondent contacts in local communities and build on recent IT interviews with specific organizations where possible. Interested parties should fax capability statements to the Contracting Officer at 301-427-1740 no later than 12:00 noon on May 17, 2005. All responses will be considered by AHRQ. Telephone requests will not be honored. A determination by the Government not to compete this proposed contract based on responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government.
- Record
- SN00799751-W 20050505/050503211736 (fbodaily.com)
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