Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health (CPH) uses NextGen for provisioning, hosting, and ongoing support of an electronic medical record system at CPH’s 240 Parsons Avenue facility. An additional module is required, called Population Health, to provide analytics for data and assessment for CPH programs and grant requirements. This ordinance authorizes a contract to cover the costs of this module for a contract period of August 1, 2019 through July 31, 2020, for a total cost not to exceed $68,958.00.
The hosted NextGen system enables CPH to operate major clinical operations and provides for an extensive array of services. The software enables patient registration, appointment scheduling, monitoring and tracking of patient test results, creation and processing of electronic medical records, and generation of reports to help manage clinic operations.
The Contract Compliance No. for NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC is 330702959 and expires on 3/19/2021. This ordinance is submitted as an emergency in order to ensure that the data and assessment module is implemented by the beginning of August, 2019.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this contract is budgeted and available within the Health Department Grants Fund.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, to purchase an additional module to provide analytics to assist with data and assessment, in accordance with sole source procurement provisions of Columbus City Code; to authorize the expenditure of $68,958.00 from the Health Department Grants Fund; and to declare an emergency ($68,958.00).
Body
WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health (CPH) uses NextGen for provisioning, hosting and ongoing support of an electronic medical record system at CPH’s 240 Parsons Avenue facility; and
WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health has a need for a contract with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC to provide an additional module, Popula...
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