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[State Entity Name] Health Department [Description of Work] NwHIN Direct Proof of Concept 1. This project is structured as three parts; parts A, B and C. Any eligible 902TS vendor may bid on any combination of the three parts. 2. The statutory mission of the MDH is to protect, maintain, and improve the health of all Minnesotans. This mission is realized through disease surveillance and other activities. A key component of these activities is the exchange of health records with health care providers. Traditionally these records have been reported through paper documents. 3. The Legislature of the State of Minnesota has mandated use of electronic health records by all Minnesota health care providers by January 2015. The Minnesota Department of Health is required to receive various health records. It is necessary for the Department to have an infrastructure capable of accepting these health records in electronic form. Additionally the federal government is promoting the use of electronic health records through various incentives and mandates.. 4. MDH acknowledges that a messaging infrastructure is necessary for the Agency. Building an Agency wide infrastructure is a very complex task involving many components. The scope of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of using a federally recommended component called NwHIN Direct. The reference architecture envisioned includes: NwHIN Direct as the gateway component; RabbitMQ as the messaging component; Orion Rhapsody as the transformation and translation component and; PostgreSQL representing a service layer component. The vendor(s) will install the gateway component and connect it to the other key infrastructure components necessary to move information across the reference implementation. Once this concept has been proven, a larger scale implementation with associated new contracts is envisioned. This reference architecture is potentially a new State standard for health information exchange. 5. This is a proof of concept project. Future phases of the overall effort may expand upon this work to build an operational capability for the delivery of electronic health records across all appropriate State agencies. 6. The primary stakeholder for this project is MDH. 7. The solution must be built on MDHs infrastructure. MDH will require the use of KVM virtualization, Linux, Java, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ version 2.8 using AMQP specification 0-9-1, Orion Rhapsody version 4.1 which may be upgraded to version 5 during this project, Apache Tomcat, Apache Maven2, Subversion, Hudson and Sonatype Nexus. [Deadline for Vendor Response] 9/24/2012 [Publication Date] 9/18/2012 [Document links] 
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