Contract job via RFP | Medem

I'd like to give anyone interested the opportunity to respond to an RFP that my current employer, Medem, is sending out. If you choose to respond the responses are due by May 31st, 2007.

The PDF is attached, but a short extract is below.

About Medem
Medem, Inc. is the leading provider of products and services to the Healthcare industry.

Medem has created the nation's premier physician-patient communications network, designed to facilitate online access to information and care for more than 90,000 physicians, their practices, and their patients. Medem's services include:

• An iHealthRecord for all Americans, with integrated Education Programs developed by trusted health authorities including the nation's medical societies, national patient advocacy groups, and government agencies, among others.
• HIPAA compliant Online Consultation, fee-based clinical consultation service, and Secure Messaging, to handle administrative issues with a physician practice, including scheduling appointments, request prescription renewals, and asking general questions.
• Physician practice web sites, which provide patients with general practice information, news and announcements, trusted clinical content from the nation's leading medical societies, and access to all secure Medem services that the practice has enabled.

Project Overview
After considering the available technologies and solutions available Medem has decided to use Drupal as its CMS.

Medem currently has two web properties that need to come under the management of Drupal, http://www.medem.com and http://www.ihealthrecord.org. Both web sites have integration points with our online products which would need to be maintained. The medem.com web site is currently run using Cold Fusion files which are manually maintained. In addition to the content and design, some functionality would need to be replicated as well. The ihealthrecord.org site is currently run using static HTML files which are manually maintained. Content changes on both sites are currently subject to a lengthy build and QA process since the actual files need to be modified and placed into production.

The medem.com web site also features a library of medical articles (http://www.medem.com/medlb/medlib_entry.cfm) and a search for those articles that is shared with other Medem applications. The medical articles are currently maintained by a CMS called
Xcelerate which is no longer supported due to the facts that the company has gone out of business and Medem does not have the source code to enhance the product or fix bugs. These medical articles are provided both by third party partners (e.g. the AMA and other medical societies) and by internal resources (e.g. our editorial team). The CMS will need to support a strict editorial process for this type of content.

Integration points for the medical library and medical library search will need to be considered during development. Solutions that can be utilized by our suite of java-based web applications will be required. These solutions may be implemented over multiple phases since changes to other applications may be required.

Finally, performance and security are of paramount importance to Medem. The aforementioned sites are the primary public face of Medem and therefore should support our current traffic volume and perform well based on expected growth. In the medical software space security is an extremely important topic which can make or break the reputation of a company. This project will have several integration points with our other products which need to be considered, but we also publish medical articles which are a trusted source of information for our customers.

Read the rest of this proposal by checking out the attached PDF.