National Patient Information Repository System (NPIRS)
SOURCES SOUGHT for ISBEE
National Patient Information Repository System (NPIRS)
This is an "Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise" (ISBEE) Sources Sought announcement only. This Source Sought is a market research tool being used to determine the availability of qualified Buy-Indian owned small businesses. This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. All responses will be used for market analysis in determining the availability of potential qualified small businesses that may be used to determine the appropriate acquisition strategy. No solicitation is being issued at this time, but will be issued at a later date.
Background:
The National Patient Information Reporting System (NPIRS) is the reporting environment for the Indian Health Services (IHS) and consists of a National Data Warehouse (NDW) and a myriad of functional data marts. The NPIRS environment was developed in 1986 and the purpose of NPIRS has always been to produce accurate and timely reports that are required by statute and regulation and provide a broad range of clinical and administrative information to managers at all levels of the Indian Health Services to allow them to better manage individual patients, local facilities, regional and national programs.
The National Patient Information Reporting System (NPIRS) consist of a database of healthcare information gathered from all the associated direct Indian Health Service (IHS), Tribal, and Urban healthcare sites and regional administrative offices of the Indian health system. These include over 500 healthcare sites and 12 regional offices in 39 states. The data in the NDW comes from government and commercial healthcare information systems that are largely transaction-based, utilized at the local level to support the provision of patient care, as well as from other specified sources (e.g. IHS Fiscal Intermediary, Social Security Administration). The data includes demographic data; third-party eligibility information; patient-based clinical data (e.g., health factors); and encounter-based clinical data (e.g., purpose of visit, procedures, medications, laboratory test results, radiological results). Historical records of change are also maintained to support historical reporting as required.
The purpose of NPIRS is to provide a broad range of clinical and administrative information to managers at all levels of the Indian health system to allow them to better manage individual patients, local facilities, regional and national programs and to allow IHS Management to provide legislatively required reports to the Administration and Congress. Initial development of the IHS electronic medical record (EMR), the Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS), began nearly 30 years ago, and many facilities have access to decades of personal health information and epidemiological data on local populations.
A key component of interoperability within the IHS environment is the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) and the Health Information Exchange (HIE) that provides connectivity to internal IHS facilities for the secure exchange of relevant patient data and provides a mechanism to produce a HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document (CCD) extract from RPMS.
The IHS NwHIN provides connectivity to external agencies and internal facilities for the secure exchange of relevant patient data using the NwHIN gateway. NwHIN is a set of standards, services and policies that enables secure health information exchange over the Internet and provides the foundation for the exchange of Health IT across diverse entities, within communities and across the country, helping to achieve the goals of the HITECH Act and EHR certification requirements for Meaningful use. As part of the NwHIN, IHS has implemented a Master Person Index (MPI) solution for master data management. The MPI identifies persons (patients) across disparate registration, scheduling, financial, and clinical systems and is needed for information exchange to consolidate the patient list from the various IHS RPMS databases. To eliminate duplicate identifications, the MPI uses matching algorithms to recognize related patient information and links them together under an Enterprise ID in a comprehensive master index.
The IHS Personal Health Record (PHR) improves the overall health of patients. It provides a secure environment where patients can view and manage their Personal Health Record online, as well as access health information, health assessments, and electronic services online.
The Government is interested in Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise vendors regarding the performance of this requirement. The Government will use this information in determining its small business set-aside decision. Interested vendors are requested to provide their aforementioned information, along with interest and a Capability Statement (3 Pages, excluding cover page). No pricing input is being requested.
The Government requests interested vendors to submit a written response to this notice which includes:
1. Company name and a brief description of their company's business size (i.e. annual revenues and employee size)
2. Company point of contact, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, DUNS number, and website address
3. Name, telephone number, and e-mail address of a company point of contact who has the authority and knowledge to clarify responses with Government representatives
4. Business status (Indian Small Business Economic Enterprise). Type of company is validated via the System for Award Management (SAM). All respondents must register on SAM located at https://www.sam.gov
5. Description of same/similar services offered to the Government and to commercial customers. Any responses involving teaming agreements should delineate between the work that will be accomplished by the prime and the work accomplished by the teaming partners.
6. Anticipated teaming arrangements (i.e. prime contractor/subcontractor, joint venture, mentor-protege relationship, etc.)
7. Applicable GSA Schedule number or other available procurement vehicle
8. Date Submitted
Responses must be submitted not later than Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 10:00 am (EST). Capability Statements will not be returned and will not be accepted after the due date. The maximum number of pages for submission is three (3) pages (excluding cover page). Capability statements should be e-mailed directly to the Primary Point of Contact (POC) listed below.
SUBMISSIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL.
* TELEPHONE CALLS AND QUESTIONS WILL "NOT" BE ACCEPTED.
Disclaimer and Important Notes. This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract .Any information provided by industry to the Government as a result of this sources sought synopsis is strictly voluntary. Responses will not be returned. No entitlements to payment of direct or indirect costs or charges to the Government will arise as a result of contractor submission of responses, or the Government's use of such information or otherwise pay for the information provided in response. The Government reserves the right to use information provided by respondents for any purpose deemed necessary and legally appropriate. Any organization responding to this notice should ensure that its response is complete and sufficiently detailed to allow the Government to determine the organization's qualifications to perform the work. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted. After a review of the responses received, a pre-solicitation synopsis and solicitation may be published on a government GPE. However, responses to this notice will not be considered adequate responses to a solicitation.
Confidentiality. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response. The Government reserves the right to use any non-proprietary technical information in any resultant solicitation(s).
Vito Pietanza, Contract Specialist, Email vito.pietanza@ihs.gov - Kenneth G. Truesdale, Contracting Officer, Email kenneth.truesdale@ihs.gov
