Appendices
Appendix A
Generic Request for Proposal
We are pleased to offer the Request for Proposal in electronic format on the publisher’s Web site, which can be found at http: //springeronline.com/0-387-26096-X.
XYZ Health Services
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
For an
Advanced Clinical Information System
Date
NOTE: Proposal Submittal Deadline: XYZ P.M., mm/dd/yyyy
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Table of Contents
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . 5
II. INTRODUCTION . . . . 7
A. OBJECTIVE . . . . 7
B. GENERAL INFORMATION . . . . 7
C. RFP INSTRUCTIONS . . . . 9
III. RESPONDENT BACKGROUND INFORMATION . . . . 12
A. Company Profile . . . . 12
B. Design/Development Philosophy . . . . 13
C. References . . . . 13
D. General Requirements . . . . 14
IV. XYZ’S ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS . . . . 16
A. Background . . . . 16
B. Specific Solution Descriptions . . . . 18
V. PROPOSED SOLUTION . . . . 38
A. Application . . . . 38
B. Infrastructure . . . . 39
C. Reporting . . . . 39
VI. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS . . . . 40
A. Compliance with Regulations and Industry Standards . . 40
B. Applications and Integration . . . . 40
C. Support and Problem Escalation . . . . 41
D. Business Continuity . . . . 41
VII. ACIS IMPLEMENTATION . . . . 43
A. Program Plan . . . . 43
VIII. XYZ CONCEPT CENTER . . . . 45
IX. COSTS/PRICE QUOTATION . . . . 46
XI. APPENDIX A: OVERVIEW OF XYZ . . . . 49
A. Core Business . . . . 49
B. Mission . . . . 49
C. Vision . . . . 49
D. Values . . . . 49
E. Volumes . . . . 50
F. Overview of XYZ ACISs Environment . . . . 50
G. Overview of Associated Information Systems Environment . . . . 51
H. Overview of Information Services . . . . 51
XII. APPENDIX B: XYZ SYSTEM SELECTION CRITERIA . 52 XIII. APPENDIX C: APPLICATIONS AND INTEGRATION TABLE . . . . 54
XIV. APPENDIX D: XYZ CONCEPT CENTER REQUIREMENTS . . . . 67
A. Goals and Objectives for the XYZ Concept Center . . . . 67
B. Assumptions . . . . 68
C. Scope . . . . 69
D. Timeframe . . . . 69
E. Vendor Deliverables . . . . 70
F. Evaluation Criteria . . . . 71
XV. APPENDIX E: XYZ CONCEPT CENTER INTERFACES . . . . 72
XVI. APPENDIX F: CONTRACTUAL REQUIREMENTS . . . 75
A. Principles to be addressed in the Contract . . . . 75
B. Specific Terms to be Included in the Contract . . . . 77
XVII. APPENDIX G: DEMONSTRATION SCRIPTS . . . . 90
XVIII. APPENDIX H: GLOSSARY OF TERMS . . . . 91
Appendix B
Nursing Informatics Special Interest Groups
Susan K. Newbold
Alliance for Nursing Informatics Area: United States
Contact: Connie J Delaney (connie-delaney@uiowa.edu) or Joyce Sensmeier
(JSensmeier@himss.org)
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
4915 St Elmo Avenue, Suite 401 Bethesda, MD 20814 USA 1-301-657-1291
mail@amia2.amia.org
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Nursing Informatics Working Group (www.amia.org/working/ni/
main.html)
American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) (www.ania.org)
Australian Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group Health Informatics Society
Australia, Inc.
413 Lygon Street
East Brunswick, VIC Australia 3057 61-3-9388-0555, 61-3-9388-2086 (fax) hisa@hisa.org.au
Brasilian Nursing
Association Nursing Informatics Group at Brazilian Nursing Association (GEINE) Contact: Heimar F. Marin
(heimar@denf.epm.br) or Christine Cunha
(icris@denf.epm.br)
British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group
(See also NPIG) (www.bcsnsg.org.uk) Editor ITIN
(editinnur@bcs.org.uk). Also treasurer.nsg@bcs.org.uk
Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) www.cnia.ca
Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing (CARING)
www.caringonline.org
European Federation for Medical Informatics–WG 5 Nursing Informatics in Europe
www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope/
index.htm
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Patrick Weber, Chair, IMIA representative (patrick.weber@
nicecomputing.ch) Paula M Procter, Vice Chair
(p.procter@sheffield.ac.uk) Denise Barnett, Secretary
(101630.2751@compuserve .com)
Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ)
www.hinz.org.nz PO Box 32 515
Devonport, Auckland, NZ admin@hinz.org.nz Chairperson
(chairperson@HINZ.org.nz) Administration manager
(secretary@hinz.org.nz)
Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland Nursing Special Interest Group
www.hisi.ie/html/nursing.htm
Health Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
HIMSS
230 East Ohio, Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60611, USA
1-312-664-4467 (tel); 1-312-664-6143 (fax)
himss@himss.org
See www.himss.org for the
41 chapters (www.himss.org/asp/
chapters.asp)
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics (SIGNI) (www.imia.org/ni/index.html)
IMIA NI Education Working Group (http://welcome.to/imia-ni- education)
IMIA-SIG-NI WG on Open Source Nursing Informatics (www.osni.info/html/index.php)
National League for Nursing 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006,
USA
1-800-669-1656, 1-212-363-5555 nlninform@nln.org
National League for Nursing (NLN) Nursing Educational Technology Information Management Advisory Council
(ETIMAC)
http://www.nln.org/aboutnln/
AdvisoryCouncils TaskGroups/
etimac.htm
NURSINFO Hong Kong Helen Sit Wing-Fun
(sithwf@ha.org.hk)
Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group of the GMDS
The German Association of Medical Informatics, Biometry, and Epidemiology [Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
(GMDS)]
Matthias Hinz, Vice Chairman of the NI SIG
Institute for Medical Informatics Fetscherstrasse 74
D-01307 Dresden, Germany hinz@imib.med.
tu-dresden.de
Nursing Professions Informatics Group (NPIG)
United Kingdom www.nhsia.nhs.uk/npig/
Perinatal Information Systems User Group (PISUG) International
Debbie Aiton, PISUG President (DEBAITON@aol.com)
Spanish Society of Nursing
Informatics and Internet (SEEI) http://www.seei.es
seei@seei.es
Swiss Special Interest Group Nursing Informatics (SIG-NI) Patrick Van Gele
(pvangele@chuv.hospvd.ch)
Appendix C
Sources of Additional Healthcare Informatics Information
Books and Internet
American Nurses Association. (2001). Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice. Washington, DC: ANA.
Androwich, I.M., Bickford, C.J., & Button, P.S. et al. (2003). Clinical Infor- mation Systems: A Framework for Reaching the Vision. Washington, DC:
American Nurses Association.
American Nurses Association. (2005) Informatics Certification Exam- ination Information (www.nursingworld.org/ancc/certification/cert/exams/
TCOs/BSN27 Infor TCO.html).
Ball, M.J., Hannah, K.J., Newbold, S.K., & Douglas, J.V. (eds) (2000). Nurs- ing Informatics: Where caring and technology meet, 3rd ed. New York:
Springer. See the entire series of Healthcare Informatics books by Springer.
(www.springeronline.com).
Womack, D., Newbold, S.K., Staugaitis, H., & Cunningham, B. (2004). Tech- nology’s role in addressing the nursing shortage: innovations and examples.
(http://maryland.nursetech.com/F/NT/MD/NursingInnovations2004.pdf).
Journals and Magazines
Advance for Health Informatics Executives
ADVANCE Newsmagazines/
Merion Publications, Inc.
2900 Horizon Drive King of Prussia, PA 19406
Tel. 800-355-5627 subscribe@merion.com
Advance for Health Information Professionals
ADVANCE Newsmagazines/
Merion Publications, Inc.
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2900 Horizon Drive King of Prussia, PA 19406 Tel. 800-355-5627
subscribe@merion.com
The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management
Tel. +44 1932 821723;
Fax +44 1932 820305
subscriptions@bjhcinfo.demon.
co.uk
CIN: Computers Informatics in Nursing
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins PO Box 1620
Hagerstown MD 21741 Tel. 1-800-638-3030 or
1-301-223-2300
Health Informatics Journal Sage Publications
2455 Teller Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 Tel. 805-499-9774 or 800-818-7243;
Fax 805-499-0871 or 800-583-2665
Journal of AHIMA
233 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 2150 Chicago, IL 60601-5800
Tel. (312) 233-1100 journal@ahima.org
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Hanley & Belfus, Inc.
Customer Services Department 6277 Sea Harbor Drive
Orlando, FL 32887-4800 Tel. 800 654-2452 Toll-free (U.S.
and Canada); 407-345-4000 (outside the U.S. and Canada);
407-363-9661 elspcs@elsevier.com
JHIM: Journal of Healthcare Information Management 230 East Ohio Street, Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60611-3269
Tel. 312-664-4467; Fax 312-664-6143 www.himss.org
Healthcare Informatics
4530 West 77th Street, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN 55435
Tel. 612-835-3222
Health Data Management
118 South Clinton Street, Suite 700 Chicago, IL 60661-3628
Tel. 312-648-0261
Health Management Technology Nelson Publishing/Health
Management Technology 2500 Tamiami Trail North Nokomis, FL 34275 Tel. 941-966-9521
Hospitals & Health Networks 737 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL 60611-2615 Tel. 312-440-6800
http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/
index.jsp
Modern Healthcare
360 N. Michigan Avenue, 5th Floor Chicago, IL 60601-3806
Tel. 312-649-5350 or 312-649-5297
Nursing Education Perspectives 61 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Tel. 800-669-1656 or 212-363-5555
Nursing Economic$
Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc.
East Holly Avenue, Box 56 Pitman, NJ 08071-0056 Tel. 856-256-2300;
Fax 856-589-7463
Nursing Management
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins PO Box 1620
Hagerstown, MD 21741 Tel. 1-800-638-3030 or
1-301-223-2300
Appendix D
Professional Societies
American Academy of Nursing 555 East Wells Street, 11th Floor Milwaukee, WI 53202-3823
Tel. 414-287-0289; Fax 414-276-3349 info@AANnet.org
American Association of Colleges of Nursing
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 530 Washington, DC 20036
Tel. 202-463-6930
http://www.aacn.nche.edu
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Nursing Informatics Working
Group
4915 St. Elmo Avenue, Suite 401 Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel. 301-657-1291 http://www.amia.org
American Nurses Association Council on Nursing Services and Informatics
America Nurses Association 600 Maryland Avenue,
Suite 100 West, SW Washington, DC 20024-2571 Tel. 202-651-7000
http://www.ana.org
Canadian Organization for the Advancement of Computers in Health (COACH)
2 Carlton Street, Suite 1304
Toronto, Ontario M5B 1J3, Canada Tel. 416-979-5551
http://www.coachorg.com
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
230 East Ohio Street, Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60611-3201 Tel. 312-664-44677 http://www.himss.org
IEEE Computer Society
1730 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036
Tel. 202-371-0101
http://www.iccad.com/ieee.html or http://www.computer.org/
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group
Ulla Gerdin, RN, Chair Swedish Institute for Health
Services Development (SPRI)
316
Box 70487
Stockholm, Sweden Tel. 011-46-8-702-4600 ulla.gerdin@spri.se http://www.imia.org
Medical Group Management Association
104 Inverness Terrace East Englewood, CO 80112 Tel. 303-799-1111 http://www.mgma.com
Midwest Nursing Research Society (MNRS)
10200 W. 44th Avenue, Suite 304 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
Tel. 720-898-4831 http://www.mnrs.org/
National Institute of Nursing Research
31 Center Drive, Room 5B09, MSC 2178
Bethesda, MD 20892-2178 http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
National League for Nursing Council on Nursing Informatics National League for Nursing 61 Broadway
New York, NY 10006
Tel. 800-669-1656 or 212-363-5555 http://www.nln.org
nlninform@n/n.org
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 550 West North Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Tel. 317-634-8171
http://www.nursingsociety.org/
Society for Medical Decision Making
1211 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tel. 215-545-7697; Fax 215-545-8107
http://www.smdm.org
Appendix E
Academic Informatics Programs Worldwide
Programs in the United States
Arizona School of Health Sciences (Mesa, Arizona)
Centers for Disease Control (Atlanta, GA)
Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program (Epidemiology Program Office)
Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH)
Medical Informatics Fellowship (Division of Medicine/ Department of General Internal Medicine)
College of St. Scholastica (Duluth, MN) Health Informatics
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Dental Informatics, School of Dental and Oral Surgery
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Medical Informatics (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)
Institute for Healthcare Informatics (College of Information Science and Technology)
Duke University (Durham, NC)
Clinical Informatics (Department of Community and Family Medicine, Division of Medical Informatics)
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Duke University (Durham, NC)
Nursing Informatics (School of Nursing)
East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)
The Brody School of Medicine, Telemedicine Center, Advanced Telemedicine Training
Eastern University (St. Davids, PA)
School of Professional Studies, Nursing Informatics Certificate Program
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
Department of Biostatistics, MSPH Program in Public Health Informatics
Excelsior College (Albany, NY)
Clinical Systems Management/Healthcare Informatics (Graduate and Certificate Programs in Nursing and Allied Health)
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA)
School of Computational Sciences (Bioinformatics Programs)
George Washington University Medical Center (Washington, DC) School of Public Health and Health Services
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Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)
Center for Clinical Computing, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;
Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
Indiana University Indianapolis, IN
School of Informatics-Bioinformatics/Chemical Informatics/
Human-Computer Interaction
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