Information for those replying to the BC Ministry of Health
Request for Proposals SATP-219
Requirement I-3: Receives lab reports from private and/or public lab facilities that use Medinet for reporting. See http://www.medi.net. Proponents that are in compliance are to attach to their response proof that they have passed Medinet (amended from Excelleris) compliance testing, or proof of currently live interfaces with lab providers using Medinet.
Question 11-1: In Section I, you’ve requested a number of “proof of Interfaces.” Our experience has been that this sometimes takes more than a few weeks to obtain. Does this proof have to be included with our response or can it included prior to end of the Validation & Demo cycle?
Answer: The requirements in Section I make reference to “proof that they have passed [xyz] compliance testing” or “proof of currently live interfaces with…” Either is acceptable. For further clarification, the Proponent may provide a letter of confirmation of compliance from the authorizing entity, or may provide a letter of evidence from a client with a currently live interface. If neither is available, the proponent should cite their compliance and may provide the required evidence before the end of Validation Testing. Please note: This stipulation does not affect the requirement that the response to all requirements must be based on “existing functionality in the Proponent’s most current production environment” at time of the submission of the Proposal.
In the case of the Teleplan requirement in I-1, the aforementioned proof of compliance with
Teleplan 4.0 is not required as the Ministry can alternatively gather this confirmation directly
from Teleplan. However, since Teleplan cannot provide direct proof of compliance with WCB
and Primary Healthcare specifications, the Proponent will be required to provide this proof
before Validation Testing if they indicate, in their response that they are compliant with these.
Medinet does not subject EMR vendors to compliance testing. We expect vendors to be responsible to their clients, and to create and maintain software that correctly imports and displays laboratory data.
In our opinion, vendors that are able to import our standard text-based report, identify it with a particular patient and physician and then display or print the report meet this requirement. This is something that should be referred to when completing the response template and demonstrated during validation testing.
NOTE: for vendors that so desire, Medinet will provide a letter indicating that specific reference clients are receiving lab reports over our network. This could be included in the submission for SATP-219. Please call Kate at 604 742-8833 to arrange this.
For HL7 data from Medinet, the requirement is the same. The vendor system should import the data from our standard format and display or print it as necessary.
For the convenience of the vendor community, documentation and sample data files are available.