To: Board of Supervisors
From: DHHS: Public Health
Agenda Section: Consent
SUBJECT:
title
Electronic Medical Record Software Agreement with Patagonia Health Inc.
end
RECOMMENDATION(S):
Recommendation
That the Board of Supervisors:
1. Approve and authorize the Chair to sign the software agreement between Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) - Public Health and Patagonia Health Inc. for the period effective upon execution of the agreement through five consecutive years in the amount of $155,722.52; and
2. Authorize the DHHS - Public Health Director, or designee thereof, to execute all future amendments directly related to this agreement upon review and approval by Risk Management and County Counsel.
Body
SOURCE OF FUNDING:
Public Health Fund
DISCUSSION:
In 2011, DHHS-Public Health entered into an agreement with Netsmart Technologies, Inc. (Netsmart) for the provision of their Insight Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software. Netsmart has been the incumbent vendor for the last eight (8) years serving as the DHHS - Public Health Clinic's software. In 2018, DHHS - Public Health was informed that the server that Insight exists on would no longer be supported and may pose a security risk beginning in January of 2020. After considering options to address the server, DHHS - Public Health in conjunction with DHHS - Information Services, determined that is was time for a Request for Information (RFI) for EMR software.
On October 22, 2019 (Item C-12) your Board approved the RFI for Electronic Medical Record software for DHHS - Public Health. As a result of the RFI, the evaluation committee recommended selection of Patagonia Health, Inc. as the best-suited vendor for DHHS - Public Health's needs for the following reasons:
* They have public health-specific EMR software.
* They currently contract with five (5) other California counties including Alpine, El Dorado, Madera, Mariposa, and Sacramento, so they are experienced in the unique legal ...
Click here for full text