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

by Committee on Future Information Architectures Processes and Strategies for the Centers for Medicare, National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309221943
• ISBN13: 9780309221948
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 192 Pages