HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 04122011 - C.53RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Purchasing Agent, on behalf of the Health Services Department,
to execute a Purchase Order with AGFA in the amount of $1,426,497.21 for the IBM server
hardware necessary to support the upgrade of the radiology imaging deployment within the
Health Services Department.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% Enterprise Fund I.
BACKGROUND:
The Health Services Department already has the AGFA Impax radiology system for picture
archival. Currently the system installed is running on a now End of Life product provided
by AGFA. Now we must upgrade to the next release of the product. The current 6.5 release
supports many advanced features and will add our capability to perform mammography
exams. The 6.5 release will support all of our operating systems as the software is now
platform independent. Additionally,
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
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
RECUSE:Gayle B. Uilkema, District II
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.53
To:Board of Supervisors
From:William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:April 12, 2011
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Purchase Order with AGFA for IBM Servers
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
the capacity to have a completely redundant system will be added in case any of our data
centers has an outage. The availability of the application must have a reliability of 99.999%.
One system will be placed in the data center running the application while the second is
placed in our disaster recovery site. Without this purchase, we will no longer be able to take
electronic diagnostic images.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Not purchasing the upgrade would force us to no longer use the current diagnostic imaging
system. By returning to printing to film we would have to add radiologists on staff to handle
the additional workload. Other concerns would be access to the data on the current system
once it goes offline. Not purchasing the fully redundant system adds unnecessary risk and
leaves us vulnerable to system downtime, which would have a negative impact on our
ability to care for our patients.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
Not applicable.