Action Requested: Iowa MiddleWare Demo/Request for Information
Good morning,
This is follow-up to comments made during the ELR Meet & Greet at CSTE last week...
I am requesting one of the following actions if there is any possible interest in joining Iowa in issue a Request for Information (RFI):
1. Send an e-mail to John.Satre@idph.iowa.gov indicating that your jurisdiction would like to be named in the RFI with an appropriate contact AND receive information from any respondents. I want to underscore that being part of the RFI in no way obligates any party to a financial (or any other) commitment.
2. Please respond to the doodle poll (click on link below) to let me know availability next week, which will be used to schedule a couple demonstrations:
https://doodle.com/poll/q4z8ktswpw73ap4f
In addition to the Rhapsody integration engine, Iowa uses a piece of web-based technology that we call the smartLab. The smartLab sits between our hospital/laboratory partners and Rhapsody. It is very similar to a web based solution used by Massachusetts to enable:
This is follow-up to comments made during the ELR Meet & Greet at CSTE last week...
I am requesting one of the following actions if there is any possible interest in joining Iowa in issue a Request for Information (RFI):
1. Send an e-mail to John.Satre@idph.iowa.gov indicating that your jurisdiction would like to be named in the RFI with an appropriate contact AND receive information from any respondents. I want to underscore that being part of the RFI in no way obligates any party to a financial (or any other) commitment.
2. Please respond to the doodle poll (click on link below) to let me know availability next week, which will be used to schedule a couple demonstrations:
https://doodle.com/poll/q4z8ktswpw73ap4f
In addition to the Rhapsody integration engine, Iowa uses a piece of web-based technology that we call the smartLab. The smartLab sits between our hospital/laboratory partners and Rhapsody. It is very similar to a web based solution used by Massachusetts to enable:
- validation;
- translation of codes (test, result, and other vocabulary codes such as abnormal flags, race, ethnicity, etc.) to a public health codes set;
- transformation, if necessary, to the 2.5.1 EDI format; and
- automated messaging back to the sender when a message fails validation.
- hospital/laboratory self-testing for on-boarding, re-on-boarding, or bringing new tests or conditions on-line for ELR. In addition, the system provides a sender-specific web portal for reviewing errors and re-processing a message under the right circumstances. This last feature also allows public health staff to resolve an issue for the particular message and similar future messages under the right circumstances.
While highly effective, it is costly and we've been directed by executive leadership to reach out and let you know that Iowa is intending to go out with a request for information to the technology marketplace to see what other software companies may have available along with pricing.
We’d be interested in demonstrating the existing technology and then talking with you and your staff about interest in joining our RFI effort. There’s certainly no obligation, but we believe it strengthens our request for information to have other states join our effort to simply collect information on what’s available, without obligation.
Good afternoon,
Iowa is very close to publishing the Request for Information (RFI); we have received some responses of states that are joining Iowa. Just wanted to let you know that if you are considering joining the RFI, please send the attached letter - modified for your jurisdiction, of course, to the following e-mail addresses:
john.satre@idph.iowa.gov, sarah.brooks@idph.iowa.gov
See the attached document that can be used to express interest in participating with the RFI while simultaneously offering no commitment or obligation for participating any future activity.
Thank you.
ELR Middle Ware Demo
We also have our Rhapsody Route working to fix some of the standard things you relax but we have not seen any data come through for some time. Can you guys check that and see if it has been shut off for IL?
Thanks
Todd
Product demonstration related to response to IDPH RFI for ELR. Meeting will be attended by internal IDPH staff as well as participants from other interested states. The meeting will be recorded for those interested parties unable to attend.
Time: Nov 7, 2019 01:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Product demonstration related to response to IDPH RFI for ELR. Meeting will be attended by internal IDPH staff as well as participants from other interested states. The meeting will be recorded for those interested parties unable to attend.
Topic: ELR Middleware Demonstration - Iowa Health Information Network (IHIN) and Persivia
Time: Nov 15, 2019 08:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
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