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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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Briefers to the Committee

JULY 19, 2010, COMMITTEE MEETING

Julie Boughn, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Information Services

JULY 23, 2010, COMMITTEE MEETING

Julie Boughn, CMS, Office of Information Services

Tony Trenkle, CMS, Office of Information Services

SEPTEMBER 27-28, 2010, WORKSHOP AND COMMITTEE MEETING

John Bertko, LMI Consulting

Donald Berwick, CMS, Administrator

Jonathan Blum, CMS, Center for Medicare

Julie Boughn, CMS, Office of Information Services

Peter Budetti, CMS, Center for Program Integrity

Cathy Carter, CMS, Office of Information Services

Henry Chao, CMS, Office of Information Services

Alan Constantian, CMS, Office of Information Services

Kelly Croft, Social Security Administration, Systems

Jack Ebeler, Health Policy Alternatives

Amy Hall, CMS, Office of Legislation

Karen Jackson, CMS, Center for Medicare

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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Ashish Jha, Harvard School of Public Health

Norman Kahn, Council of Medical Specialty Societies

Cindy Mann, CMS, Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification

Karen Matsuoka, Brookings Institution, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform

Vincent Mor, Brown University

Farzad Mostashari, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

Teresa Nino, CMS, Office of External Affairs and Beneficiary Services

Anthony Rodgers, CMS, Center for Strategic Planning

Michelle Snyder, CMS, Operations

Robert Tagalicod, CMS, Office of External Affairs and Beneficiary Services

Marilyn Tavenner, CMS, Office of the Administrator

Penny Thompson, CMS, Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification

Tony Trenkle, CMS, Office of Information Services

NOVEMBER 10-11, 2010, COMMITTEE MEETING

Anthony Rodgers, CMS, Center for Strategic Planning

Michael Shabot, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

JANUARY 13-14, 2011, SITE VISIT AT CMS BALTIMORE HEADQUARTERS

Cynthia Anderson, CMS, Office of Information Services

C. Ryan Brewer, CMS, Office of Information Services

Frank Cipolloni, CMS, Office of Information Services

Lori Maatta, CMS, Office of Information Services

Ray Pfeiffer, CMS, Office of Information Services

Vish Sankaran, CMS, Office of the Administrator

Penny Thompson, CMS, Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification

Ronald Topper, CMS, Office of Information Services

Janet Vogel, CMS, Office of Financial Management

Carol Young, CMS, Office of Information Services

FEBRUARY 17-18, 2011, COMMITTEE MEETING

Christine Cassel, American Board of Internal Medicine

Chris Cruz, Medi-Cal

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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Larry Dickey, Medi-Cal

Thomas Donovan, New York State Department of Health, Office of Health Insurance Programs

John Halamka, Caregroup

George Isham, Health Partners Minnesota

James Johnson, The Standish Group

Anthony Rodgers, CMS, Center for Strategic Planning

Vish Sankaran, CMS, Office of the Administrator

Robert Shiflet, Bank of America

Donald W. Simborg, Consultant

Randy Teach, Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center

APRIL 18-19, 2011, COMMITTEE MEETING

Julie Boughn, CMS, Office of Information Services

Jennifer Boulanger, CMS, Office of Legislation

Cathy Carter, CMS, Office of Information Services

Ashley Corbin, CMS, Office of Information Services

Jane Fountain, CMS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Sally Good-Burton, CMS, Office of Information Services

Debbie Hattery, CMS, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality

Mark Hogle, CMS, Office of Information Services

Terris King, CMS, Office of Minority Health

Diane Kovach, CMS, Office of Information Services

Mary Agnes Laureno, CMS, Center for Program Integrity

Peter Lee, CMS, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation

Maria Martino, CMS, Office of Legislation

Paul McGann, CMS, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality

David Nelson, CMS, Center for Program Integrity

Todd Park, Department of Health and Human Services

Michael Reinhold, CMS, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality

Elizabeth Richter, CMS, Center for Medicare

William Saunders, CMS, Office Information Services

Tony Trenkle, CMS, Office of Information Services

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Briefers to the Committee." National Research Council. 2012. Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13281.
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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.

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