HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04122011 - C.43RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and Authorize the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department,
to execute a Purchase Order with Nexus IS in the amount of $2,582,918.18 for the disk
storage and fiber channel networking to support the EPIC electronic medical record
deployment within the Health Services Department.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Enterprise Fund I.
BACKGROUND:
This software will run nearly all aspects of clinical information flow, payment systems,
prescription ordering, and many other workflows. With the new EPIC application the
department is consolidating 14 line of business applications into one application. Therefore
the uptime of this application is critical as nearly 3,000 employees will be working with it.
Reliable disk storage subsystem with 99.999% uptime is required to meet the requirements
of the application. The selected VMAX storage is the best fit for our EPIC application and
to replace storage on our other aging disk storage. The solution is completely redundant
with a disk array at our primary and secondary data centers. Without this purchase, the
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 04/12/2011 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I
Supervisor
Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: David Runt,
313-6228
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board
of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: April 12, 2011
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Carrie Del Bonta, Deputy
cc: Tasha Scott, Demetria Gary, Karon Head
C.43
To:Board of Supervisors
From:William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:April 12, 2011
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Purchase Order with Nexus IS
EMR project could sustain costly downtime, data loss, and loss of employee productivity.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
This disk subsystem if not purchased will cause the Electronic Medical Record project to
stall and possibly fail. Additionally, our current medical application called Meditech
requires additional disk be purchased as the disk array for it is no longer supported by the
vendor. If we were to have a failure of the Meditech disk array, our ability to provide
services would be crippled. Without a disk array for either Meditech or the Epic EMR
project, our capability to provide services for our customers would suffer and our ability to
receive reimbursement from our patient’s insurance providers would be delayed.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
Not applicable.