electronic Patient Record Solution and associated services

Tender description

Type of procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation The Trust wishes to procure an EPR integrated solution which supports the Clinical 5, as defined by the NHS Informatics Planning Guidance 2010 before the opening of the new Midland Metropolitian Hospital. This solution must connect and share data with the Trust’s core retained systems. However, the Trust requires the chosen solution to provide the platform for migration to a full electronic medical record (EMR) as defined by HIMMS. The Trust have analysed a number of options to achieve the overall objectives and benefits set out in the EPR OBC. The scope of this procurement is to procure a clinical wrap/EPR with the option to take the vendor’s integrated PAS and additional EPR functionality at some point in the contract term. This is a two-phased approach. The first phase concentrates on implementing a clinical wrap/EPR to the existing iPM PAS and implement this solution prior to October 2017. Following the completion of MMH a second phase will be optionally undertaken to replace the iPM PAS with the vendor’s integrated PAS. Therefore, the Trust reserves the option to utilise additional existing and future healthcare functionality provided by the chosen supplier which will be evaluated through the term of the contract. The clinical wrap EPR solution must provide the following CORE functions: • Emergency Department • Order Communications & Diagnostic Reporting • Clinical correspondence (including Inpatient discharge summary, clinic and ED letters) • Theatres Management • ePrescribing and medications administration (including integration to the Trust JAC pharmacy stock control system) • Clinical Noting and Observations • Care Pathways • Advanced Clinical Decision Support • Electronic Document Management (integration capabilities) • Voice recognition (integration capabilities) The following requirements are considered non-core for the purposes of this procurement process and evaluation to enable the Trust to assess affordability and enable the Authority to negotiate on these requirements: • Critical Care Patient Management • Bed Management • Enterprise Wide Scheduling • Patient Portal • Business Intelligence (including Data Warehouse and statutory reporting) As described above the Trust wants the option to procure additional EPR functionality during the life of the contract including: • Patient Administration; including Patient Demographics, Referrals (including 18 WW pathway), Appointments, Admissions, Waiting Lists • Maternity – inpatient, outpatient and community • Ophthalmology – to support the specialist Birmingham Midlands Eye Centre • Cardiology and other specialist departmental functions Additional licenses maybe procured during the term of the contract. In addition, the Trust requires the provision of the following services: • A fully hosted and managed service • Integration within the Trust and with local GP and community trust systems • Associated systems implementation services i