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Contract for the Purchase of Patient Care and Pharmacy Information Systems, UIC Medical Center, Chicago

(12) The chancellor at Chicago recommends approval of a contract with the Cerner Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, to provide a Patient Care Information System and a Pharmacy Information System for use at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center (UICMC). This contract provides computer software, hardware, and professional services. The software includes Cerner's Patient Care and Pharmacy Information Systems and sub-licensed software from Cerner Corporation for the Oracle database run-time software, Digital Equipment Corporation operating system and communication software, Microsoft microcomputer operating system software, and Walker, Richer & Quinn communications software. The hardware includes Digital Equipment Corporation data center equipment, IBM microcomputer and communications equipment, and Hewlett Packard, Inc., laser printers. Professional services include product installation, support, and project management services. The Patient Care System will provide outpatient care information and will replace the existing Technicon TDS-4000 inpatient information system. The Technicon system which was purchased in 1978 and installed over a six-year period, is now obsolete. The system will provide a fully automated approach to ordering, resulting, charting, and documenting patient care. The system will be interfaced with selected departmental systems including the laboratory, radiology, outpatient pharmacy, and financial systems. The Pharmacy Information System will provide pharmacy information and will allow direct physician orders, a pharmacist review and communication to the hospital's robotics dispensing system, automated compounding of IV fluids, on-line drug interaction testing, decision support for monitoring pharmacy orders in relation to laboratory results, and management report functions to determine hospital-wide drug usage, drug cost analysis and savings, and information pertinent to drug utilization and drug compliance issues. This Patient Care System and Pharmacy Information System were selected by teams of UICMC personnel who determined UICMC's information needs and then examined numerous vendor alternatives through written documents, structured vendor demonstrations, and visits to customer sites of the finalist vendors. The UICMC Executive Management Systems Steering Committee, which includes members from Hospital Management, the College of Medicine, and Central Administration, made the final determination of the selected vendor. This selection activity occurred over a three-year period and the process was supported in part by the consulting firm of Zinn Enterprises, Ltd. Implementation of the Patient Care System will begin in July 1995, and will require an extensive effort which is planned to span a four-year period. This implementation is subdivided into two major stages. Stage I will be for the outpatient services and will take approximately two years. Stage II will concentrate on inpatient services and will require the following two years. The Pharmacy Information System implementation will begin in May 1995, and will span a period of eight months. A detailed master work plan has been developed, mutually agreed upon, and incorporated into the contract to insure optimum utilization of Cerner and UICMC resources during the implementation process. Payments to Cerner throughout the contract are contingent based upon meeting the schedule, system response time, and other criteria as outlined in the master work plan. The cost of this contract is $12,123,790 for the period from May 12, 1995, through June 30, 2000. Table I details the component costs of the contract and Table II provides the payment schedule. (A copy of the tables is filed with the secretary for record.) In addition, the contract includes a contingency of $3.0 million to be expended if necessary to meet the hardware performance requirements of the Patient Care System as a result of future software development by Cerner and in