Federal Bureau of Prisons issues RFI for EHR

[Roger A. Maduro]

Heads up guys. The US Federal Bureau of Prisons released an RFI for an EHR for the system. It was released last friday and responses are due tomorrow by 3:00 PM EST. The short time available clearly shows this is rigged towards a proprietary EHR vendor. Well, the community still has 24 hours to reply to the RFI with an open source solution. Link and text below.

Roger

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c87b0db6c56b21497bec1f94d513b650&tab=core&_cview=0

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Health Services Department (HSD) and Office of Information Systems (OIS) have jointly created a Request for Information to assess the marketplace for Electronic Health Record systems. The goal of this RFI is to obtain detailed information about electronic health records and clinical decision making systems, including capabilities such as acute and sub-acute care, allied health services, patient accounting and management, and ambulatory care. Information provided by the vendors will be used to further refine the BOP's specifications for the potential solicitation/acquisition system. Interested parties shall not be reimbursed for any costs related to the development and submission of information in response to this RFI.

This is NOT a solicitation for proposals, proposal abstracts, or quotations. Please see the attached document for full RFI details. Responses are due no later than 3:00 PM EDT 06 June 2014.

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[Dennis Murphey]

Can’t we register a complaint to OMB for this stupid trickery.

They obviously don’t want full and open bidding, so dumb.

Dennis

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[Michael ONeill]

The response date is actually June 20. 

The original date was June 6 but they’ve extended it.

Mike

[Mike Ginsburg]

It’s an RFI and I didn’t see any stipulation that required responding to the RFI as a prerequisite for responding to an eventual RFP.

 

That said, there should be some way to get VistA on their radar screen. Didn’t the VA state that they were going to bid on the DoD procurement? If that’s still their intent, maybe they should start with this government agency.

 

I have researched this in the past and, not surprisingly, VistA is a good fit for correctional health.

[Dennis Murphey]

Good If anyone wants to reply and needs an integrator to help let me know.
We don't have a product. Dennis

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[Nancy Anthracite]

At the VistA Community Meeting, It was stated by someone from the VA that the
VA can't actually do that. I suspect there was some plan in the works to
figure out how it could be done by some other mechanism, however, but with Eric
Shinseki no longer at the helm, I think we have to assume that the VA is not
going to be trying to do this work for the DOD. I just hope that the vendor
or vendors that decide to respond to the RFP with VistA will seek to keep the
open source community, VA and DOD aligned and open source despite the DODs
apparent lack of interest in open source or sensible solutions.

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> https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c87b0db6c56b21497bec1f
> 9 4d513b650&tab=core&_cview=0

[Roger A. Maduro]

The Bureau of Prisons actually looked at VistA in the previous round, some 7 years ago, or so. Some of the key people were in talks with senior VA officials. If I recall correctly, they went with Allscripts. Whatever they chose was a spectacular failure. The primary reason given for not going with VistA at the time was that there were no large vendors that could do a VistA deployment at that scale. Time for an open source solution. So one of the key elements in an RFI would be a discussion of the fact that the VistA community has now matured and there are solution providers that can implement and support large scale VistA deployments.

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