Friday, March 22, 2013

Quick note on VT MMIS activities






Vermont staff would like to thank you and acknowledge your continued interest in Vermont.  

As part of our ongoing work to build out our Health Services Enterprise, we wanted to share with you our planning for an MMIS procurement.  Vermont is working on MMIS RFP(s) and will communicate release schedules in the coming weeks.    BE ADVISED, with all the work currently underway, the State is unable to meet all requests/demands for meetings so at this time, please refrain meeting requests. 

If you have questions, please submit them to:  dvha.dhr@state.vt.us.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Two New RFP Postings by DVHA!!






Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) and Additional Performance/Quality Measure Reporting RFP 03410-117-13: http://www.vermontbusinessregistry.com/BidPreview.aspx?BidID=9723
The Department of Vermont Health Access, hereinafter called DVHA, is seeking to establish a service agreement with a company which has obtained, and will maintain during the term of the agreement, a National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) certification to provide services and/or software license(s) for NCQA Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) measures. In addition, DVHA is interested in other quality/ performance measures. These include, but are not limited to: AHRQ-PQI, AMA-PCPI, CDC, CMS/ CMS-QMHAG, and HCA/TJC-PC. DVHA may expand deliverables in addition to the HEDIS measures or establish additional service agreements for a subset of these measures to fulfill two grants that were awarded.


Quality Performance Measures and Performance Improvement Projects 03410-118-13: http://www.vermontbusinessregistry.com/BidPreview.aspx?BidID=9724
The Department of Vermont Health Access (hereinafter called DVHA) is seeking to establish service agreements with one (or more) companies that can provide 1) validation of performance improvement projects and validation of performance measures and 2) training on analyzing and utilizing performance measures for quality improvement and technical assistance around developing and conducting performance improvement projects while following the protocols adopted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (Protocol 7, Version 2.0).