MODIFICATION
D -- Medical Image sharing through a patient-controlled exchange system.
- Notice Date
- 4/12/2011
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541512
— Computer Systems Design Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Rockledge Dr. Bethesda, MD, Office of Acquisitions, 6701 Rockledge Dr RKL2/6100 MSC 7902, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7902
- ZIP Code
- 20892-7902
- Solicitation Number
- NHLBI-CSB-(EB)-2011-149-RNP
- Archive Date
- 5/6/2011
- Point of Contact
- Rieka Plugge, Phone: (301) 435-0376, Aaron Blackshire, Phone: (301) 435-0335
- E-Mail Address
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Rieka.plugge@nih.gov, aaron.blackshire@nih.gov
(Rieka.plugge@nih.gov, aaron.blackshire@nih.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- This Sources Sought Notice (SS) is for information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation or as an obligation on the part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). The purpose of this SS is to identify qualified small business concerns [including Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman-owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses, Veteran-owned Small Businesses (VOSB), and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB)] that are interested in and capable of providing the below medical image sharing services for a patient-centered and healthcare providers facilitated medical image sharing system. The NHLBI does not intend to award a contract on the basis of responses nor otherwise pay for the preparation of any information submitted. As a result of this Sources Sought Notice, the NHLBI may issue a Request for Proposal (RFP). THERE IS NO SOLICITATION AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. However, should such a requirement materialize, no basis for claims against NHLBI shall arise as a result of a response to this Sources Sought Notice or the NHLBI's use of such information as either part of our evaluation process or in developing specifications for any subsequent requirement. The NHLBI is seeking capability statements from all eligible small business concerns [particularly Small Disadvantaged Businesses (SDB), Woman-owned Small Businesses (WOSB), Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Small Businesses, Veteran-owned Small Businesses (VOSB), and Service-Disabled Veteran-owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB)] under the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 541512 with a business size standard of $25.0 Million. Based on the responses received from this Sources Sought Notice, the proposed acquisition may be solicited as a Total Small Business Set-Aside. All eligible small business concerns responding to this Sources Sought Notice must have the capabilities to provide the below services at time of award. Interested parties are expected to review this notice to familiarize themselves with the requirements of this project; failure to do so will be at the firm's own risk. Statement of Work Background Medical images play an important role in quality patient care. Many diagnostic and treatment decisions are heavily dependent on image data (including images and reports). In today's medical environment, most patients have multiple encounters at geographically separate locations, with image data dispersed across a number of sites. The inability to share medical image data across separate organizations results in significant problems: inadequate patient care due to absent data, delayed care due to ineffective image distribution, and significant increases in cost and potential health risk due to duplicate image acquisition. Sharing image data through a network for image exchange will lead to better informed medical decisions, better analysis of medical outcomes, reductions in unnecessary expenses, and improvements in the quality and safety of patient care. The value of patient care will be enhanced when systems at different locations are capable of managing, exchanging and displaying medical information in its many forms, including images. In addition, an optimal solution could dramatically reduce overhead on the health care infrastructure. NIBIB has funded several projects over the last few years to establish basic infrastructures to promote the exchange of medical images across broad geographic areas within the United States. Purpose The purpose of this contract is to develop a patient-centered and healthcare providers facilitated medical image sharing system where patients can directly control who has access to their images for effective and safe image sharing among radiologists and clinicians across organizational boundaries. NIBIB encourages a standards-based approach to leverage existing standards and frameworks that have been developed in the public sector, to establish an electronic "patient-controlled" method that will provide an efficient mechanism for managing health information and provider access. NIBIB requires the system to address many critical factors in medical image sharing (e.g. security, identity, privacy and confidentiality, consent and permissions, bandwidth, ease of use, etc.). Technical Requirements To be able to qualify for this contract, offerors must demonstrate that they have the capability to develop a medical image sharing system with which patients can control how and when to share their medical images. The offerors must also demonstrate, by themselves or by collaboration, the broad expertise, such as medical imagers, radiologists, physical scientists, engineers and informatics specialists needed for this work. The offerors must also demonstrate the capability of collaboration with academic institutions and industries that provide multiple imaging modalities and EHR solutions. Finally, the offerors must provide plans and measures to ensure that the solution they developed under this contract will be readily disseminated and adopted by industry partners. A sustainability model shall be integrated into the overall image sharing plan. Specifically, the offerors shall: •Develop a program plan and project management process. A program plan will provide a detailed description of the activities for the entire contractual period. The activities shall be presented in a time-oriented sequence. For clarity and brevity, one-page charts shall be utilized whenever possible. The program plan shall include: o Tasks to be accomplished o Methods and timelines for achieving the tasks o Milestones, deliverables, and timelines o Allocation of resources, costs, hours, and personnel •Establish a 5-9 member advisory board to provide direction of the project and to evaluate and recommend the use cases for development. The advisory board shall include expertise in medical imaging, radiology, primary care, physics, engineering, and informatics from academic institutions, and/or industrial vendors. •Establish a minimum of 5 regional image-sharing sites across the United States, that are linked through a shared access to a patient-centered, web-based personal health record system. Each regional network will maintain knowledge of the exams made available by each participating radiology center (e.g. hospitals, imaging centers, etc.). •Propose a solution that is easily scalable to provide a generic model for image sharing for all patients and all institutions in the United States. The proposed solution shall be flexible in order to accommodate the needs of small clinics and major medical centers. •Develop appropriate use cases for the image sharing system based on real world scenarios of image examination workflows in the health care environment. The use cases must address unmet needs or technical challenges. •Implement the image sharing use cases or extend an existing institutionalized image sharing system. •Develop an image sharing system that could serve as a standards-based reference framework for clinical decision support, data mining, quality assurance (QA), and structured reporting capability. The reference framework should provide standards-based approaches to enable interoperability of clinical information and image data. The reference framework should be easily adopted by industry. The standards and specifications include, but not limit to: o HL7 o IHE, XDS, etc. o HIE o HITSP o NHIN •Leverage the radiology ontologies, standard vocabularies, and structured radiology report whenever possible and appropriate. The ontology and standard vocabularies include, but not limit to: o RadLex o SNOMED-CT o LOINC •Develop a partnership and take concrete steps with industry and the community to facilitate the adoption of the solution developed under this contract, as a reference for interoperability. •Explore economic schemes of image exchange to develop a sustainability model for this activity. •Extend the current system to resolve remaining issues in policy, safety, and security to enable the secure but transparent exchange of imaging exams throughout the healthcare systems. •Develop an information security plan according to FISMA which should be approved by institutional IRB. •Develop flexible end user preferences and permissions for patients so that they can easily control when, who, and what to share. For example, patients should be able to select individual images or report for sharing. Patient should also be able to cancel the permission to share an image or put a time limit on a shared image. At the end of the two year base period of performance, the offerors must: •Demonstrate that the image sharing system that has been developed is able to exchange and import imaging exams into and from systems across institutional boundaries in an intuitive and easy process. •Demonstrate consumer-based access to imaging exams through integration of Personal Health Records (PHRs), with the above system in a secure fashion, recognizing HIPAA requirements. •Demonstrate that internet-based imaging exchange is an extensible model that includes the numerous venues of standard clinical care as well as in the research environment. If an option is exercised by the end of year two during the contract, the offerors shall conduct a limited and controlled study to evaluate the patient-controlled medical image sharing system for: •The efficiency and security of patient-controlled image sharing. •The reduction of the time and cost for sharing and transferring longitudinal records among regional networks. •The reduction of the time and cost for selecting images and exporting them to clinical studies. •The benefits of a patient-controlled medical image sharing network to patients, physicians and researchers. The period of performance is estimated to be for one (1) two year base period with one (1) two year option period. Before the contract ends, the offerors shall make every effort to disseminate the image sharing system to the public through conferences, public web sites, etc. The programming code of the image sharing system that is developed under this contract should be freely and publicly accessible to the general public. Interested parties should submit a tailored capability statement for this requirement, not to exceed 20 pages (including all attachments, resumes, charts, etc.) presented in single-spaced and using 12-point font size minimum that clearly details the ability to perform the aspects of the notice described above. All proprietary information should be marked as such. Statements should also include an indication of current certified small business status; this indication should be clearly marked on the first page of your capability statement (preferably placed under the eligible small business concern's name and address). Responses will be reviewed only by NIH personnel and will be held in a confidential manner. All capability statements sent in response to this Sources Sought Notice must be submitted electronically (via e-mail) to Ms. Rieka Plugge, Contract Specialist, at rieka.plugge@nih.gov and Mr. Aaron Blackshire, Contracting Officer, at aaron.blackshire@nih.gov in either MS Word or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), by April 21, 2011, 7:30 AM, EST. All responses must be received by the specified due date and time in order to be considered.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: Bethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
- Zip Code: 20892
- Zip Code: 20892
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