DHA RFI: Military Health System (MHS) Medical Quality Assurance System (MQAS) Request

Notice ID HT0011-23-RFI-0172

Credentialing and Privileging (C&P) and Healthcare Risk Management (HRM) require a centralized, integrated, application for Medical Quality Assurance Activities and Records.

GENERAL INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP NETWORK (IPN) PURPOSE: The DHA IPN Program, within the Component Acquisition Executive (CAE) (J-4) Directorate at the DHA, intends to use industry responses and communications from this notice as market research for subsequent acquisition strategies. DHA seeks information on availabilities, capabilities, and other pertinent marketplace data to strengthen the DHA’s understanding of the current and future marketplace to enhance its ability to obtain quality services economically and to efficiently and lawfully establish potential vendor source files, listings, and capabilities. The DHA will not award any contracts under this notice.

DHA’S SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM & MARKET RESEARCH NEED:

The DHA intends to replace the current IT system, Centralized Credentials Quality and Assurance System (CCQAS) – a 20-year-old Government-Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) solution that provides four functions – Credentialing, Privileging, Healthcare Risk Management (HRM), and tracking Potentially Compensable Events (PCE). C&P are critical elements of MHS compliance with The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation standards for hospitals, clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers. HRM activities include malpractice claims, active-duty adverse events associated with health care (Active Duty Deaths and Disabilities), clinical adverse privileging actions, and administrative and criminal adverse actions associated with health care providers.

The goal is a seamless integration and deployment of an IT system or suite of systems that standardize, centralize, and integrate the medical staff management capabilities of credentialing and privileging, and health care risk management for DHA MTFs and for the Service operational commands. This effort requires an innovative, cost-effective approach for migrating and/or archiving legacy data to guarantee accessibility for up to 50 years after cut-off date.

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