Explanation
This legislation will authorize the Director of the Department of Technology, on behalf of the Columbus Public Health Department, to enter into a contract with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems for hosting and ongoing support of an electronic medical record system. The original agreement (EL016122) was authorized by ordinance 1489-2014, passed July 21, 2014. The agreement was most recently renewed and authorized under the authority of ordinance 1706-2019, passed July 1, 2019 through purchase order PO188162. This ordinance will authorize continuing services for the term period of August 1, 2020 to July 31, 2021, at a cost of $292,998.88.
The hosted NextGen system enables the Columbus Public Health Department to operate five major clinical operations, which provide an extensive array of services. These services include 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.
This ordinance also requests approval to enter into a contract agreement with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC in accordance with sole source procurement provisions of Section 329 of the Columbus City Code as it has been determined that NextGen is the sole provider of direct hosted NextGen systems and is the sole owner of NextGen software.
Finally, this ordinance authorizes the expenditure of $292,998.88, from the Health Department’s direct charge allocation of the Information Services Operating Fund, for the above-described purpose.
FISCAL IMPACT:
In 2018 and 2019, the Department of Technology legislated $225,369.40 and $242,210.16 respectively, with NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC for the provisioning, hosting, and ongoing support services of an electronic medical records system utilized by the Columbus Public Health Department. The cost for the 2020 hosting and ongoing support services for...
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