Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Nitor 2023

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a secure, internet-based surveillance system that integrates patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at CDC. Enrollment in NHSN is open to all types of healthcare facilities in the United States, including acute care hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient dialysis centers, ambulatory surgery centers, and long-term care facilities. Initially built to support 300 volunteer hospitals inputting data manually on a variety of healthcare associated infections, NHSN today is used for a multiplicity of purposes including infection control, healthcare worker safety, blood safety, process-of-care measurement and improvement, prevention research, mandatory public reporting, and public health surveillance. Over 14,000 healthcare facilities are currently enrolled and entering data into NHSN with substantially more facilities expected within the coming year. In addition to manual data entry, NHSN is leading an effort to utilize pre-existing electronic data from Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other healthcare information systems using Health Level 7 (HL7) balloted and standardized Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) documents for automated data entry. To that end, NHSN is seeking Health Information Service Provider (HISP) services to facilitate the secure transport of CDA documents from healthcare facilities to NHSN via the NwHIN Direct Protocol.