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Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Paperback / softback Book

Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Paperback / softback

Edited by Lynette I. Millett, Edward H. Shortliffe

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, for limited-income individuals and families, and for children-totaling almost 100 million beneficiaries.

The agency's core mission was established more than four decades ago with a mandate to focus on the prompt payment of claims, which now total more than 1.2 billion annually.

With CMS's mission expanding from its original focus on prompt claims payment come new requirements for the agency's information technology (IT) systems. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reviews CMS plans for its IT capabilities in light of these challenges and to make recommendations to CMS on how its business processes, practices, and information systems can best be developed to meet today's and tomorrow's demands.

The report's recommendations and conclusions offered cluster around the following themes: (1) the need for a comprehensive strategic technology plan; (2) the application of an appropriate metamethodology to guide an iterative, incremental, and phased transition of business and information systems; (3) the criticality of IT to high-level strategic planning and its implications for CMS's internal organization and culture; and (4) the increasing importance of data and analytical efforts to stakeholders inside and outside CMS.

Given the complexity of CMS's IT systems, there will be no simple solution. Although external contractors and advisory organizations will play important roles, CMS needs to assert well-informed technical and strategic leadership.

The report argues that the only way for CMS to succeed in these efforts is for the agency, with its stakeholders and Congress, to recognize resolutely that action must be taken, to begin the needed cultural and organizational transformations, and to develop the appropriate internal expertise to lead the initiative with a comprehensive, incremental, iterative, and integrated approach that effectively and strategically integrates business requirements and IT capabilities. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary and Recommendations1 Essential Considerations and Background2 Toward a Comprehensive Strategic Technology Plan3 A Meta-Methodology for the Modernization and Transformation ofBusiness and Information Ecosystems4 Achieving Cultural and Organizational Transformation5 Anticipating a Data-Centric FutureAppendixesAppendix A: Statement of TaskAppendix B: Briefers to the CommitteeAppendix C: Biosketches of Committee Members and StaffAppendix D: Sources and Uses of Data Within the Centers forMedicare and Medicaid ServicesAppendix E: A Two-Phase Approach to Modernization andTransformation of Business and Information EcosystemsAppendix F: GlossaryAppendix G: Acronyms

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