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Department details EHR procurement, phased go-live and contingency funds
Summary
DPH staff presented a consolidated EHR RFP and implementation plan, described a six-month shift from a UCSF path, outlined three phased go-lives (Wave 1: Envision billing sites and two hospitals; Wave 3: behavioral health in 2020), cited vendor letters of intent and estimated costs with a contingency fund of about $70 million.
Bill Kim, the department's chief information officer, and Albert Yu, chief health information officer, presented an update on the Department of Public Health's electronic health record (EHR) effort, the procurement timetable and the project's critical path.
Kim said the EHR RFP and contracting effort has been consolidated into one track and noted the timeline has shifted partly because the department is moving from a UCSF sole-source approach to an RFP-based procurement. He said the department expects contracting to be complete by the end of 2017…
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