The state of California has finalized a nearly $2.6 million contract with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services (HPE) for work on the California Immunization Registry (CAIR) 2.0 project, according to procurement records.
Over the past few months, the state reported it was finishing a contract amendment with HPE that reflects the project's new schedule and additional costs. Hewlett Packard began its work on CAIR 2.0 in November 2014 after winning a competitive procurement.
The build phase, testing and user training is scheduled to continue through 2016, and go-live is currently scheduled for spring 2017.
CAIR is a Web-based statewide information system where authorized users can track patient immunization records of California residents. In its current form, CAIR is managed by a consortium of nine regions, seven of which are multi-county efforts that use common software.
In those seven registries, there are about 20,000 clinical health-care providers using CAIR.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is spearheading the $11.8 million CAIR 2.0 project to centralize the registry into a single statewide hub. CDPH says CAIR 2.0 has three main goals:
1. Consolidate data from the seven CDPH-managed regional CAIR registries — Northern Cal, Greater Sac, Bay Area, Central Valley, Central Coast, LA-Orange, and Inland Empire into a single CAIR hub
2. Replace the current CAIR software with new CAIR software that supports Health Level Seven International (HL7) data exchange.
3. Connect the single CAIR hub to three other non-CDPH CAIR regional registries to allow statewide patient searches and record retrieval.
Under its scope of work, HPE will modify and install Wisconsin's immunization registry software as the foundation for the state of California's new statewide CAIR hub. Hewlett Packard already has demonstrated some parts of the new application for the San Diego, San Joaquin and Imperial County CAIR regions.
