Tender: Request for Information: Clinical Appropriateness Tools for Community EMRs in Alberta

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Primary and Preventative Health Services is seeking information on existing and emerging clinical decision support (CDS) tools that can be deployed within community electronic medical records (EMRs) to support clinically appropriate prescribing. The RFI requests insights on how such solutions can support prescribing at the point of care, the technical and integration considerations involved, and whether vendors already have integrations with community EMRs in Alberta or comparable jurisdictions and how that positions solutions for deployment within Alberta’s current health system environment. The tender notes a heterogeneous community digital health landscape where many EMRs have varying embedded decision-support features—often reflecting vendor defaults rather than provincially curated, evidence-based rules—while provincial platforms such as Connect Care and Netcare provide broader clinical context and system-level medication decision support. The RFI highlights variability, differences in configuration and prioritization, and the risk of duplicative or low-value alerts as challenges, and seeks approaches that are interoperable, scalable, sensitive to prescriber workflows, and complementary to existing functionality. This RFI is not a competitive bid process and will not result in a contract award.