To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Ori Tzvieli, Interim Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #23-873 with Imprivata, Inc.
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Interim Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County a Master Cloud Services Agreement with Imprivata, Inc., a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $52,859, for electronic health record threat detection software and services for Contra Costa Health (CCH) for the period from December 1, 2024 through November 30, 2027.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $52,859 over a 3-year period and will be funded 100% by Hospital Enterprise Fund I revenues.
BACKGROUND:
CCH Information Technology unit is further developing the organization from a security perspective to report and respond to unauthorized use of Epic, CCH's electronic health record system. Imprivata's FairWarning Platform is an analytics and insider threat detection platform that provides patient data privacy intelligence and drug diversion analytics that ingests hundreds of data sources and applies data logic and machine learning to identify potential breaches of protected information. CCH has been utilizing this application since 2017 to monitor activities within Epic and generate alerts of suspicious actions that may indicate Health Insurance Probability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) violations.
On July 11, 2017, the Board of Supervisors approved a Master Purchase Agreement and related Order Form with FairWarning Inc., in an amount not to exceed $222,637 for the purchase of licenses, software, support, and (on-premises system implementation) for the period from July 11, 2017 through November 30, 2020.
On December 1, 2020, Imprivata Inc., acquired FairWarning, Inc., and the County began issuing Purchase Orders (to Imprivata) through the service period of Novembe...
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