SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- CAPSTONE - Outcome Measure Harmonization and Data Infrastructure for Patient Centered Outcomes Research in Depression support. - SOW
- Notice Date
- 11/9/2018
- Notice Type
- Presolicitation
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Contracts Management, 5600 Fishers Lane, Mailstop: 06N34B, Rockville, Maryland, 20857, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20857
- Solicitation Number
- AHRQ-19-10003
- Point of Contact
- Tara W. Bertolini, Phone: 3014271705, Jessica Alderton, Phone: 301 427-1783
- E-Mail Address
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tara.bertolini@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov
(tara.bertolini@ahrq.hhs.gov, jessica.alderton@ahrq.hhs.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- Total Small Business
- Description
- SOW - CAPSTONE THIS PROCUREMENT IS BEING SOLICITED AS A TOTAL SMALL BUSINESS SET-ASIDE. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be soliciting proposals for Outcome Measure Harmonization and Data Infrastructure for Patient Centered Outcomes Research in Depression support. The AHRQ Center for Evidence and Practice Improvement (CEPI) conducts and supports research and evidence synthesis on health care delivery and improvement; advances decision and communication sciences to facilitate informed treatment and health care decision making by patients and their health care providers; explores how health information technology can improve clinical decision making and health care quality; catalyzes and promotes sustainability of improvements in clinical practice across health care settings through research, demonstration projects, and partnership development; and operates the National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research AHRQ has developed a core set of harmonized definitions of patient centered outcome measures in five different clinical areas (atrial fibrillation, asthma, depression, lung cancer and lumbar spondylolisthesis) in an existing Patient Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (PCORTF) funded project (see https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/topics/registry-of-patient-registries/outcome-measures-framework). Despite the recognized value of these harmonized core outcome measures, stakeholders are reluctant to put resources into implementing them because of three main perceived barriers: 1. Burden on patients and clinicians to collect patient reported outcomes from patients; 2. Disruptions to clinical care when collecting structured data from clinicians or challenges in extracting high quality information from unstructured data already in patient records; and 3. Difficulty working with electronic health records. This project will address the barriers cited by registries and demonstrate feasibility and value by incorporating data collection in a way that fits into the workflow of busy practices and facilitates communication between specialists and primary care. This data collection can then be used as infrastructure for patient centered outcomes research. The overall objectives of this contract are to facilitate and advance the use of registries and registry research. Specifically, the objectives of this contract are: (1) Collect electronic health data from existing structured and unstructured information in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and directly form patients at multiple clinical sites at fixed intervals for patient outcomes associated with treatment for depression (2) Transfer the collected data to electronic patient registries (3) Develop governance and data use agreement templates with the registries so that data may be made available to external researchers. (4) Develop infrastructure and tools to allow replication for other clinical registries and clinical systems. This project will examine whether this approach to data collection and transfer enhances the ability to use registries for research on patient outcomes. The anticipated outcomes of this project are: Phase I: 1. Risk analysis of number and ability of EHRs to send/exchange data to the registries Phase II: 1. Tools for clinicians and patients to facilitate integration of the harmonized depression outcome measures into electronic health records (EHRs) and registries so that these data will be available for clinical research, patient-centered outcomes research, quality improvement and implementation research. 2. Proof of concept for a standards-based approach (an approach that uses technical standards for data extraction/collection/exchange) for collecting and reporting patient outcomes information to clinicians within their workflow and simultaneously transmitting the data to registries to make it available for research. 3. Tools to make it easier for researchers and registry developers to integrate registries with clinical systems. 4. Governance and data use agreement templates that can be used by registries to make data available to external researchers. AHRQ anticipates awarding a single contract in May 2019 with a four (4) month base period: Phase I - Risk Assessment and one (1), twenty (20) month option period: Phase II - Data Exchange and other activities. The solicitation and any documents relating to this requirement will only be available by downloading from the Internet through www.fedbizopps.gov. Interested Offerors are responsible for monitoring this site for the release of the solicitation and any subsequent amendments. It is anticipated that the solicitation will be available for downloading on or about 15 days after publication of synopsis. Additionally, please see the attached draft SOW. This version of the SOW is in its near final form. The Agency does not anticipate significant changes to occur between this posting and the final SOW included in the full RFP.
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