Thursday, April 3, 2025
4/3/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Non-Construction - The State of Alaska, Department of Health (DOH) Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) is seeking funding to obtain a qualified Contractor to provide design, development (including configuration), and implementation; maintenance and operations; and hosting services for an integrated and comprehensive behavioral health information management system. This system will contain a Certified Electronic Health Record Technology (CEHRT) electronic health record (EHR) component, Grant Reporting solution, Case Management components for Non-Clinical wrap-around services such as Therapeutic Courts and the Alcohol safety Action Program and a variety of other features to support various elements of the Continuum of Care. This system will meet standards and implementation specifications adopted in 45 CFR part 170, Subpart B and is intuitive, modern, and efficiently serves users across a continuum of statewide behavioral health services across Alaska. PROJECT VISION AND GOALS: DBH seeks to implement a modern IT solution to help achieve the following goals: 1. Reduce administrative burden; 2. Improve efficiency in data processing and maintenance; 3. Improve customer service and the client experience; 4. Improve overall technology services; and 5. Support stronger alignment with Medicaid and other Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) activities, leading to improved outcomes and compliance. The single application will need to serve a variety of functions to meet the needs of the diverse behavioral health organizations utilizing the system. To achieve this, the IT solution will be a cloud hosted Software as a Solution (SaaS) or Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) application that will perform the various core functions for DBH. These functions include but are not limited to: 1. A system that can have direct data entry and/or accept required data from outside Electronic Health Record Systems. This data entry is to comply with Federal Reporting needed for the Mental Health Block Grant and the Substance Use Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Services Block Grant for continuation of federal funding that is passed through to various behavioral health grantee programs throughout the state. 2. The application will contain a Case Management component that through client consents, can directly tie activities between Alaska Therapeutic Courts or the Alcohol Safety Action Program and the treatment agency or agencies the individual attends. 3. The product will also provide a free Electronic Health Record System which bills Medicaid for organizations that are approved through DBH as a Community Behavioral Health Center to promote the integration and utilization of Electronic Health Records in the behavioral health field in Alaska. 4. The product will manage the billings of direct contracted services that are supported by DBH. 5. The product will allow clients of the organization who use the system to have electronic access to their personal clinical records. 6. The product offers a variety of reports for data driven decisions for flexible, role-specific dashboards, performance determinations, process management, outcomes measures, integration of data from multiple sources, and data visualizations. This project is part of a department wide modernization effort to transform large and siloed data systems which accumulated data over the past decade to a future with a data driven actionable system of care. This will allow holistic solutions to both individual and regional health challenges where behavioral health and primary care overlap. The data modernization effort will generate meaningful insight to trends and patterns that are presently unseen to generate a future data ecosystem through improved interoperability.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).