What’s the history of ODJFS’s planning for MITS?
In June 2004, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Ohio’s Advanced Planning Document for the new Medicaid system and selected Ohio as an early adopter state for the MITA initiative which is intended to foster integrated business and information technology transformation among all state Medicaid agencies and improve the national administration of the Medicaid Program. For more information on MITA, see below or visit: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidInfoTechArch/. Ohio chose to name its MMIS replacement project the Medicaid Information Technology System or MITS. During 2005, ODJFS conducted comprehensive business, technical, integration, and data conversion joint application design (JAD) requirement sessions to develop over 3000 business requirements for MITS. In May of 2006, Ohio received CMS approval for the MITS Implementation-Advanced Planning Document and the Request for Proposals (RFP). The MITS RFP can be found on the State of Ohio’s State Procurement Web s
