Group Purchasing

Small practices don’t always have the resources to comprehensively research EHR features, nor the power to negotiate substantial vendor discounts. But when individual practices work together on a group purchase, that dynamic changes.

WIREC has formed stakeholder panels to help us select two or three EHR vendors who would offer the best feature set, service level agreements, and pricing structure for WIREC-facilitated group purchasing in Washington and Idaho.

Updates regarding the panels’ progress will be regularly posted to this page and described in our quarterly newsletter. Join the e-mail list.

If you have further questions about this work, please contact us.

Stakeholder Panel Activity

8/6/2010
Request for Proposals sent to EHR vendors, with a response deadline of August 23, 2010. View the PDF document.

6/30/10
The stakeholder panel met to finalize the screening criteria for use in the RFP. The criteria will be available publicly in early July, at the time that the RFP is released.

6/9/10
The stakeholder panel held its kick-off meeting. View the meeting minutes. At that meeting, the panelists developed a draft of the initial screening criteria for determining which vendors would be eligible to compete in the RFP process. A schedule of project milestones was also drafted.

Spring 2010
WIREC solicited volunteers throughout Washington and Idaho to serve on the stakeholder panels. (View a list of the panel members.) While we are no longer accepting additional panelists, observers are welcome to attend the meetings. Contact us to be advised when the meeting schedule is finalized.