Speaking yesterday at the GCN Wireless Solutions Conference in Washington, Neff said the request for proposals closed Monday with 12 bids submitted. The city expects to pick a winner around July 4 and begin construction of the citywide network in September.
Industry and government already have made progress in standards for prescription drug systems. Electronic lab results and bioterrorism surveillance information are two other possibilities Leavitt mentioned that the American Health Information Community might initially handle.
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But a few stragglers are holding back complete adoption.
The Government Accountability Office and OMB officials said sections of the appropriations bills for the Commerce and Interior departments, and disagreements on project governance, have led to delays in a handful of Quicksilver initiatives.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, which resides in HHS, posted the multiple RFPs on FedBizOpps. Proposals are due July 7 for three of the RFPs.
HHS also has released a summary of principles and strategies that industry has agreed on to develop a national health information exchange.
The public-private organization and the RFPs are meant to provide ways for patients, doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and employers to agree on standards for electronic health records and a path to achieve interoperability so that medical information can be accessed anytime and anywhere.
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