VA Hosts MASS Industry Events - OSEHRA Has Video of Industry Day

In an effort to enable early and meaningful correspondence with Industry on the Medical Appointment Scheduling System (MASS) acquisition, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology (OI&T) Product Development (PD), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and Technology Acquisition Center (TAC) have scheduled the following three sessions:

• June 11th: Advanced Planning Briefing for Industry (APBI) for high level overview of MASS
• June 18th: Industry Day for an in-depth technical requirement session [Update 07/08/2014:  A video of this presentation is now available on the OSEHRA website at http://www.osehra.org/MASS-IDV
• June 30th-July 2nd: Industry One-on-Ones

VA has also released the VHA MASS Business Blueprint to provide Industry the opportunity to begin reviewing the clinical operational requirements of MASS.  VA intends to post additional technical documents that reflect the best understanding of the current technical architecture.

VA is requesting questions from Industry regarding these documents by June 12, 2014.  This input will allow VA to refine the structure of the Industry Day presentations.  Please submit questions to [email protected].  The answers to these questions will be discussed during the Q&A session of Industry Day and will also be posted online by June 20, 2014.

Additionally, VA has posted Questions for Vendors in order to receive feedback from Industry.  VA requests that answers to these questions be provided in the form of a report by June 25, 2014.  Please note that VA will consider these reports to be proprietary.

VA looks forward to your participation in these events!