According to the AHCA’s website, the HIE facilitates “the secure exchange of health information through several services between health care providers, hospital systems and payers.”
A few of HIE’s services include Encounter Notification Service, which provides participating subscribers with timely notice of patients’ hospital encounters; Patient Record Exchange, which lets providers search for patients’ health information across one or many clinical data sources; Commonwell Health Alliance platform, which allows health-care practitioners to share patient data; and Carequality, an interoperability framework used by electronic health record vendors to connect providers with existing networks.
As for how a potential vendor comes into play, the AHCA has issued an invitation to negotiate for vendors to provide “administration, management, oversight and support services for the Florida HIE.”
These services include:
- Providing admission, discharge and transfer data appropriate to agency-designated programs
- Supporting Medicaid quality initiatives and health-care effectiveness data and information set data collection and reporting
- Ensuring providers can share admission, transfer and discharge information without requiring retention of data
- Developing and implementing procedures for invoicing and collecting user fees
- Developing and implementing an agency-approved project management plan
More detailed information about ITN 012-23/24, including all submission requirements and requests, can be found online. The deadline for written questions is 2 p.m. May 20, and the deadline for responses is 2 p.m. June 17.
