RECOVERY - STATE HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

The Government intends to solicitate and award a task order contract to provide support to the Office of the National Coordinator ONC - State Health Information Exchange Technical Assistance Program. The purpose of this project is to provide technical assistance, within the five domains of health information exchange (HIE), as described below, to State HIE Cooperative Agreement awardees as the awardees facilitate the development of statewide HIE capacity. Providing states with effective technical assistance for planning and implementing HIE is vital to the success of the nationwide HIT agenda. The five domains are listed below. - Governance - This domain addresses the functions of convening health care stakeholders to create trust and consensus on an approach for statewide HIE and to provide oversight and accountability of HIE to protect the public interest. One of the primary purposes of a governance entity is to develop and maintain a multi-stakeholder process to ensure HIE among providers is in compliance with applicable policies and laws. - Finance - This domain encompasses the identification and management of financial resources necessary to fund health information exchange. This domain includes public and private financing for building HIE capacity and sustainability. This also includes but is not limited to pricing strategies, market research, public and private financing strategies, financial reporting, business planning, audits, and controls. - Technical Infrastructure - This domain includes the architecture, hardware, software, applications, network configurations, standards, certifications and other technological aspects that physically enable the technical services for HIE in a secure and appropriate manner. - Business and Technical Operations - The activities in this domain include but are not limited to procurement, identifying requirements, process design, functionality development, project management, help desk, systems maintenance, change control, program evaluation, and reporting. Some of these activities and processes are the responsibility of the entity or entities that are implementing the technical services needed for health information exchange; there may be different models for distributing operational responsibilities. - Legal/Policy - The mechanisms and structures in this domain address legal and policy barriers and enablers related to the electronic use and exchange of health information. These mechanisms and structures include but are not limited to: policy frameworks, privacy and security requirements for system development and use, data sharing agreements, laws, regulations and multi-state policy harmonization activities. The primary purpose of the legal/policy domain is to create a common set of rules to enable inter-organizational and eventually interstate health information exchange while protecting consumer interests. This notice is for informational purposes as required by the American Recovery and Reinvestement Act (ARRA - 2009). No solicitation will be posted and capability statements are NOT being requested. Award of this task order will be through the DHHS Program Support Center Task Order Contracts. No additional information is available.