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70 -- CLINICAL PROCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOL RFP 552-16-97 DUE 122396 POC Contracting Officer Michael Brown, 937-267-3992 The Ohio VISN intends to negotiate a sole-source contract with Quality Team Associates, 2605 Windsor Circle East, Eugene, OR 97405, for a prepackaged Clinical Process Management System. SIC Code 7372 applies. DEVELOPMENTAL SOFTWARE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. This procurement is unrestricted. Requests for Proposals will be available o/a 11/8/96 and only fax 937-262-2183 will be honored. Furthermore, qualified firms must have the necessary resources, personnel and technical expertise to provide training. This P/C based software for the clinical process management system must be able to.........plan and manage a patient's care from entry to the Ohio VISN of VA Healthcare System through discharge from the Ohio VISN. The system must be multi-disciplinary in approach, while supporting all levels across the continuum of care including acute care, home care, long term care and outpatient settings. It must be able to link elements of care with patient outcomes automatically through a built-in data analysis engine. Dynamic creation and customization of pathways, plans of care, physician orders and routine care items is required. The system must be able to combine pathways, plans of care, physician orders and routine elements into a consolidated treatment plan for patient care while automatically resolving conflicts among the components of the plan. Care recording must be detailed and parameterized with automatic aggregation of data into higher level categories for analysis. Cost and charge information must be captured automatically in the care recording process without requiring caregivers to know either cost and charge codes or amounts. The product must have multi-level hierarchy for categorizing actual variances from an expected treatment plan and the variance hierarchy must be integrated into the care recording process. The system must run on Microsoft Window 95 and Window/NT server via the local area and wide area networks used by the Ohio VISN of the VA. The system must be able to create new versions of pathways based on existing ones in order to test revisions before activating them. It must have an extensive support for user definition of all types of process outcomes and goals. It must support real-time creation and management of physician order sets. The systems must have an open interface for interchanging key data elements in both directions with other systems (including DHCP) through ASCII delimited formats. The interface must be accompanied by a published application interface document (API). It must be able to: 1. Develop and document standardized method of treatment. 2. Link clinical intervention with patient outcomes, move patients between pathways. 3. Provide inferential statistics. 4. Merge physician orders, plan of care and pathways into one treatment plan. (0309)

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