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FBO DAILY - FEDBIZOPPS ISSUE OF AUGUST 06, 2015 FBO #5004
DOCUMENT

U -- Health Services Platform Advocacy & Coordinating Group - Attachment

Notice Date

8/4/2015
 

Notice Type

Attachment
 

NAICS

813920 — Professional Organizations
 

Contracting Office

Department of Veterans Affairs;Acquisition Business Service;425 I Street, NW;Washington, DC 20420
 

ZIP Code

20420
 

Solicitation Number

VA10115N0153
 

Response Due

8/13/2015
 

Archive Date

10/12/2015
 

Point of Contact

Priscilla Lee
 

Small Business Set-Aside

N/A
 

Description

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION Health Services Platform Advocacy and Coordinating Group and Open-Source Agent Background Under the VistA Evolution program, Department of Veterans Affairs Central Office (VACO) will work with developer and content communities towards a strong technical foundation for its clinical information management systems. It will continue to strengthen the parts of VistA that are relevant to electronic health record (EHR) functions, through engagement with the open source community and agents such as the Open Source EHR Agent. It is also pursuing a strategy to place VistA in an open-source health services platform (HSP). VA seeks an entity that can help promote the approach through managing definition of reference architecture and standards for service interfaces and content consumption. An HSP adds data processing and services that provide intelligence to a traditional EHR. The EHR is one of the technical components of a HSP. Other components include longitudinal data stores, data access technologies, and services. Services may include messaging, complex event processing, business process management, business activity monitoring, terminology services, ontology services, and natural language processing. These services may be combined with other applications and a user interface to provide clinical functions for decision support and clinical process support. VA is developing an HSP called Enterprise Health Management Platform (eHMP). eHMP will have all of the services listed above. eHMP also includes a user-experience platform. The user-experience platform will allow development of "applets" that draw on server-side applications and services. The goal is to provide knowledge resources and an intelligent informatics platform to enable the transformation necessary to support the Vista Evolution program. Necessary capabilities include knowledge in terms of ontologies, guideline/care pathway models, and clinical decision rules. The joint work will develop applications and suites of applications to provide scalable, knowledge-driven, context-aware functionality for the Vista Evolution Program to facilitate the following tasks with approximate milestone years: "by FY 2016: coordinated care and care continuity including transitions across venues of care "by FY 2017: coordinated care integrating patient-generated data into care process "by FY 2018: conformance with care pathways and guidelines, and aggregation of performance and outcome data that facilitate population management and provider/practice optimization as well as individual patient status assessment Standards Promotion VA desires to work with an organization that can promote HSP and related standards with the following characteristics and activities: "Healthcare providers, not IT vendors, lead the organization to focus the industry on facilitating the administration and delivery of healthcare "The organization helps define a reference architecture and variants for the HSP "The organization helps define open standards for services within the HSP to exchange information "The organization helps define open standards for consumption of content and services from outside the HSP "The organization helps define use cases for healthcare delivery that drive the technical design of the HSP "The organization works with national standards groups such as Office of the National Coordinator, Object Modeling Group, HL7 to promote HSP and its standards Partnered Development of Open-Source Platform An underlying premise is that the above and related tasks can best be accomplished by establishing an open-source project and a standards-based tiered execution environment where the data structures, knowledge resources, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services of the intermediate tiers can be the subject of on-going development and refinement, and where the environment can also be used to facilitate the development and testing of applications. This will also provide a resource that can be used by multiple stakeholders to enable the VA and VistA Evolution program to address cross-platform care integration and coordination goals. As such, the joint work will also address the following tasks: "a tiered development and testing environment with ability to create experimental test beds for new resources and services "an application modeling framework for knowledge-driven configuration and orchestration of app components and workflows "a set of knowledge resources for supporting the application tasks "a set of test data for testing of applications The desired outcome to be delivered no later than the end of FY 2018 is a shared, open-source set of services based on: "Knowledge-Based Orchestration "Workflow and "Guideline-Based Reasoning Framework and Services. Questions 1.What currently instantiated organizations with the desired cross-organization affiliations and thought leadership can meet all or most of the characteristics above? a.How do they meet them? b.What membership/relationships do such organizations have with healthcare institutions that allow these organizations to lead decisions? c.What membership/relationships do such organizations have with vendors of EHRs, SaaS, PaaS and content that would facilitate commercial uptake or interface with the defined HSP and standards? d.Which organization would best meet VA needs? 2.What do you recommend the VA do: a.To promote reference architecture and technical standards for its HSP? b.To ensure that VA can use an open-source commercialized HSP for itself instead of its own custom eHMP. (We are looking for an answer that allows us to merge eHMP with other efforts. However, we are open to other alternatives and proposed solutions.) 3.What organizations also have capability to be an open-source agent and host a dev/test environment for a reference instantiation of an HSP? a.Given statutory constraints, how would VA interact with this agent to promote VA interests? b.How would VA interact with this agent to merge its eHMP work with a reference HSP with components from others? NOTE: This is NOT a Request for Proposal (RFP). It is not to be construed as a formal solicitation or any obligation on the part of the Government to acquire any services. Any information provided to the Government is strictly voluntary and will be provided at no cost to the Government. For the purpose of this RFI, the NAIC code is 813920. All responses and any questions may be submitted to the Contract Specialist, Priscilla Lee via e-mail: Priscilla.Lee@va.gov before August 13, 2015. Also, interested organizations may submit their capabilities and qualifications to the Contract Specialist.
 

Web Link

FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/VA/VAAOAS/VADC/VA10115N0153/listing.html)
 

Document(s)

Attachment
 

File Name: VA101-15-N-0153 VA101-15-N-0153_2.docx (https://www.vendorportal.ecms.va.gov/FBODocumentServer/DocumentServer.aspx?DocumentId=2210107&FileName=VA101-15-N-0153-005.docx)

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