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Tooele County approves five-year Qualifacts contract to centralize public health encounter data
Summary
The county approved a five-year contract with Qualifacts for an electronic health record system that will consolidate encounter data across provider networks; year one is $59,850 with years 2–5 averaging about $38,000 per year, and the system uses an API to allow providers to keep existing EHRs.
Peter Clegg, director of human services, presented a five-year contract with Qualifacts to implement an electronic health record (EHR) system for county provider encounters. He said the selected vendor offers an API integration that will allow local providers to continue using their existing EHRs while sharing data in a consolidated format for billing, reporting and analysis.
"This first year is fifty-nine thousand eight hundred fifty dollars with the years 2 through 5 averaging in about thirty-eight thousand per year," Clegg said, describing the upfront implementation costs and expected recurring charges. He said the system will reduce manual encounter tracking and bring data in-house for better oversight.
Council members voiced support and commended the expected efficiency gains; a motion to approve the contract carried by voice vote.
The contract is a multi-year agreement intended to improve data quality for billing, reporting to state agencies and internal program evaluation. Staff said bringing the service in-house will likely yield cost savings compared with prior reliance on managed-care organizations for certain administrative functions.
