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E-Prescribing for HAS Electronic Health Record
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The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to implement an electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) system that enables the secure and efficient electronic transmission of prescriptions to outpatient pharmacies across the United States. The system aims to replace paper and fax prescriptions, thereby reducing errors, speeding up medication delivery, and minimizing prescription fraud, especially for controlled substances through compliance with Ohio Board of Pharmacy legislation. The scope includes functionalities such as supporting new prescriptions, refill requests, medication history retrieval, medication cancellations, change requests, and real-time prescription benefits estimation, with integration capabilities for both standard and controlled substances via electronic prescribing standards and workflows like EPCS, ePA, and RTPB. Vendors must demonstrate extensive experience, particularly a minimum of ten years working with Epic’s Willow Pharmacy EHR platform and integration with third-party interface engines, along with a proven track record of end-to-end problem resolution in e-prescribing. The contract requires vendors to provide detailed cost breakdowns for integration, licensing, transaction-based usage, and ongoing maintenance, along with operational support that guarantees 99.99% system availability. Additionally, vendors must be on the approved list from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy and meet specific qualification criteria, including a clean legal and financial record, with no unresolved findings for recovery under Ohio law. The solicitation was posted on December 7, 2023, with a response deadline of February 8, 2024.
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OH, USASet-Aside
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The Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to provide the ability to electronically send prescriptions to outpatient pharmacies, to reduce the need for paper prescriptions, faxing, and reduce the likelihood of prescription fraud. BACKGROUND
Electronic prescription (e-prescribing or e-Rx) is the computer-based electronic generation, transmission, and filling of a medical prescription, taking the place of paper and faxed prescriptions.MHAS discharge practice related medicine is strictly a manual process. Part of the discharge planning process calls for placing med-order and dispensing the medicine to the patient before they depart the Hospital.Compared to paper-based prescribing, e-prescribing can improve health and reduce costs because it can: Reduce prescribing and dispensing errors. Decrease the work needed to execute a prescription. Speed receipt of prescribed drugs Reduce the incidence of drug diversion (drug abuse) by alerting providers and pharmacists of duplicative prescriptions for controlled substances.
SCOPE OF WORK AND DELIVERABLES
Vendor shall provide and support the following e-Prescribing functionality. Support new prescription for a patient. E-prescribing allows organization to send prescriptions to any outpatient pharmacy within the US electronically. EPCS allows for e-prescribing of controlled substances to any outpatient pharmacy within the US that complies with Ohio Board of Pharmacy legislation. HISP (health information service provider) allows an organization to send Direct messages to non-Epic trading partners and meet Meaningful Use Requirements ePA - Allows organization to perform the prior authorization workflow for outpatient mode medications in Epic, confirming with the payer that the patient has qualified insurance to receive the medication. RTPB – Real Time Prescription Benefits- this estimates the cost of medications and payor alternatives for those that have higher costs or require prior authorization when you could avoid the prior auth or high cost. (Must Epic contain PT prescription coverage) Discussion with Epic is require. Refill Requests allows us to receive refill requests from pharmacies (Ex. Patient requests a refill on medication from retail pharmacy and it send a message to epic for the provider to approve the prescription Only for CSN outpatient perspective Cancellations allows providers to discontinue medications electronically, which is communicated to pharmacies. Medication History allows epic to pull a list of medications prescribed to patient in the past 180 days Change Requests allows users to receive change requests from retail pharmacies and change the prescription orders in the Epic EHR Must be on the approved vendor list from the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy. Vendor to provide cost breakdown for each e-prescription feature set as described in this SOW. Cost structure shall be categorized in the following format: Integration Costs Feature license Costs (Annually) Transaction Based Costs by Volume per Feature or describe your Transaction Based Cost model operates. Ongoing Maintenance Support Costs
Vendor to provide their Operational SLA support structure to meet a 99.99% availability and reliability criteria. Vendor must be able to interface with a third-party interface engine. If Vendor uses a third-party cloud solution for any e-prescribing feature set as define in the SOW. Provide details such as, the vendors name, and describe operational support and integration support agreements with your third-party solution provider.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OF CONTRACTOR
Proposed vendor qualification is to support the following capabilities: Vendor to provide resumes detailing individuals experience to support all elements (Features, Integration and Support) for e-prescribing as defined in the SOW. Vendor experience is required regarding protocol analysis and end-to-end problem resolution for all aspects of e-prescribing, relating to the SOW. Vendor qualification: Ten (10) years or more of e-prescribing specifically with integration with Epic’s Willow Pharmacy EHR Platform Vendor must submit work experience and history with e-prescribing integration with third party interface engine and with the Epic EHR platform.
Contractor shall not be subject to an “unresolved” finding for recovery under Section 9.24 of Ohio Revised Code.
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