Matthew Quinn, Director at Army Telehealth & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)
“TATRC Wants You! TATRC is working with the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR) and FEMA to rapidly prototype and support the development of a National Tele-Critical Care Network (NETCCN). Please see the full pre-announcement for funding of clinical/technology teams through our OTA (Other Transaction Authority) Partner MTEC: https://lnkd.in/esPrng6” See the full post here.
See the Solicitation:
Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) RFP pre-announcement: National Emergency Telecritical Care Network (NETCCN) Project for Coronavirus
Solicitation: MTEC-Presolicitation-NETCCN-COVID-19
The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) is excited to post this pre-announcement for a Request for Project Proposals (RPP) to rapidly develop and deploy the National Emergency Telecritical Care Network (NETCCN) – a cloud-based, low-resource, stand-alone health information management system for the creation and coordination of flexible and extendable “virtual critical care wards.” These high acuity, virtual wards would bring high-quality critical care capability to nearly every bedside, be it healthcare facility, field hospital, or gymnasium.
This upcoming RPP will focus on enhanced development of integrated technologies and clinical workflows to establish and rapidly scale virtual wards. The program will support the extension of high-quality intensive care to traditional (e.g. critical access hospitals and clinics) and non-traditional and temporary healthcare facilities (e.g. field hospitals and gymnasiums) which lack adequate critical care expertise and resources necessary for care of COVID-19-related illnesses. Enhanced white papers should specifically address providing EXISTING technologies available for other use cases that can be rapidly adapted to establishing a National Emergency Tele Critical Care Network (NETCCN). Existing technologies which should be included are as follows:
- Mobile communications capabilities including synchronous audio/video, asynchronous messaging, and access to continuous monitoring
- Clinician-facing web portal and/or mobile-based application (goal is availability on every device)
- Capability for basic documentation in real-time as well as data collection and reporting
- Cloud-based information storage including ability for later offloading via PDF or HL7
- Specific requirements for the creation of these “virtual wards” (i.e., cohorts of patients that are managed together and with continuity by the tele critical care [TCC] teams) include the following:
- Self-contained health information management system (or system of systems) using elastic cloud computing at a minimum, IoT connections, and anticipated incorporation of future AI to enable:
- Patient flow management
- Patient level information management
- Continuity of care through shift change, provider turnover, and patient transfer using lightweight patient hand-off tools.
- Integrated audio-visual communications capability
