Whew, it has been a while since I wrote my last blog. New initiatives for the new year have been keeping me fully consumed. However, one of these new initiatives has reached a point where it was time to get it written up on my blog. The cost of Medicaid and Medicare has been written about often as government budgets are re-evaluated and the new administration takes root. With econonmic times being what they are the number of beneficiaries are increasing in an already overburdened system of service to US state and local communities. In response to concerns over rising costs, complex processes and fragile systems the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed the MITA Framework . MITA stands for Medicaid Information Technology Architecture. It is an integrated business, data, application and technology architecture built on SOA principles and best practices. MITA is a strategy and a blueprint for establishing integrated business and IT transformations in State medicaid programs to tackle the issue of rising costs, complex business processes and fragile systems. A key challenge when implementing any kind of enterprise transformation and associated SOA project is how to crawl, walk and the run in the rollout of the implementation. The MITA framework proposes a multi-stage maturity model and many states are assessing how to progress through the stages of maturity
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Applying SOA to improve US Medicaid and Medicare
