The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified the need to develop and implement a uniform assessment tool to evaluate clinical status and needs of patients across care settings. Section 5008 of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) mandates CMS to develop a uniform assessment instrument, and to test the usefulness of the instrument in a three year post-acute care (PAC) payment reform demonstration. In response to DRA requirements, CMS components and stakeholders collaborated to develop a uniform, internet- based, patient assessment instrument, referred to as the Continuity Assessments Record and Evaluation (CARE). In March 2008 CMS began testing CARE in ten PAC markets participating in the PAC payment reform demonstration. However, there are some constraints related to privacy and security for the wide scale implementation of the CARE application. These issues include:
Protection of beneficiaries privacy for personally identifiable health information. Security for the electronic exchange of sensitive, personally identifiable data. Real-time use of beneficiaries health data for clinical decision making.
The first phase of the project involves establishing a health information exchange pilot. This pilot is termed as CARE Health Information Exchange Pilot (C-HIEP).
Requirements:
Job Overview
Provide subject matter expert services to develop an open source software application to support the analysis of Medicare data sets for quality improvement initiatives.
Work closely with project development team and customers to identify an open source software application that meets business requirements.
Must have extensive background in open source applications, developing open source solutions and being very customer focused with delivery.
Must have background with health or insurance information technology, information systems and their respective technologies.
Background with Federal health systems is a major plus.
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