What is MITS?
Ohio’s Medicaid Information Technology System (MITS) is a strategic project to replace Ohio’s legacy Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). Implementation of MITS will provide the Ohio Medicaid Program with a technologically advanced MMIS that is better aligned with Federal guidelines for the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) architectural framework and that better positions ODJFS/OHP to more effectively respond to the changing face of Medicaid as a result of MITA and Health Care Reform. MITS will not only replace the MMIS but will also introduce efficiencies to the Medicaid Program through automation and transformation of existing business processes that rely on paper and that are labor intensive. The MITS project will require ODJFS to re-engineer many business processes and redesign its organization in order to maximize the capabilities of the new technology. These improvements will help facilitate timely and accurate claims processing by offering near real
