Notice ID: 36C10B22Q0182
“The CIS/ARK system promotes facility level care and population level surveillance and research within VA. The overarching goal is the ongoing quality improvement of processes, care, and outcomes (both morbidity and mortality) for the surgical and critically ill patients; and the optimization of efficiency within care sites including but not exclusive of the OR, PACU, and ICU. The utilization of standardized, objective data from the CIS/ARK databases and electronic medical records i.e. Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) electronic health record (EHR) have long been a goal of the VHA in establishing itself as a leader in the field of perioperative and critical care…”
“Scope of Work: The Contractor is required to provide a CIS/ARK Analytics/Decision Support Solution that is capable of performing extracts, report customization, and analytics services to aid in the improvement of quality of care for surgical and critically ill patients. Additionally, the Contractor is required to provide a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Clinical Surveillance Solution that is capable of performing real time custom alerts, ongoing clinical surveillance/monitoring, extracts, report customization, and analytics services to support the following programs: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Pharmacy, Infectious Disease (ID), and Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) at the VAPAHCS. Each program requires user friendly customizable dashboards, as well as specific, detailed, customized reports and queries that can be modified and created ad hoc in a timely manner throughout the contract, incorporating Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) and non-VistA domains. Data elements extracted will be used to create alerts for tracking specific events related to the occurrence of potential infections (specific organisms and critical laboratory results) and antimicrobial usage and trigger automatically when specific criteria established by the user are met. VistA domains required include, but are not limited to the following packages: microbiology lab and all laboratory data including, but not limited to, nonmicrobiology infection-related labs (e.g. lab-chem items like procalcitonin, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based labs, serologic labs), Pharmacy and Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) data, Admission/Discharge/Transfer data (ADT) bed management, vital signs, procedures/imaging performed, Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) text/notes, and Emergency Department and critical care data, outpatient laboratories/pharmacy/CPRS note data, and data from non-Palo Alto VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS) stations (e.g. community living/long-term care units at Menlo Park, Livermore VAs).”
“The Contractor shall provide a COTS solution to provide real-time clinical surveillance, decision support which shall include documenting, alerting, querying, and reporting of critical lab values, diagnostic results, healthcare associated infections, influenza, emerging infectious diseases, antibiotic usage, antibiotic resistance, drug bug mismatches, and/or pharmacological therapies…”
