Part 4 - Iowa Medicaid Enterprise

RFP MED-12-001 | Technical ProposalIowa Medicaid Enterprise System Service Procurement | MMIS and Core MMIS Operationsapproach, the conversion team will be integrated with the business area teams and will jointly attendrequirements validation sessions and collaborative design sessions to ensure a common understanding andclear identification of conversion requirements. All data conversion activities will be conducted in parallelwith the IME business area teams.Team Noridian will follow iVision360 approach which will allow any data issues to be identified veryearly and will allow for backup plan development if necessary. Data conversion is one of the firstactivities to be started during a DDI project and the only dependency to beginning work is theestablishment of the overall project work plan.Conversion planning will occur early in the project and continue throughout the entire project life cycle.During requirements verification, the conversion team will update the Conversion Plan and submit this tothe state for approval within fifteen (15) days of completion of requirements verification.Team Noridian will conduct the following conversion planning activities:• Establish conversion processes, including associated stages, tasks, activities, ownership, anddeliverables with interdependencies with other development methodology processes for theoverall system• Develop conversion procedures describing how each task and activity will be performed and verified• Establish conversion tools leveraging experience on similar conversion efforts in other states• Develop descriptions for creating and maintaining the master list of legacy data files, which willidentify data in the legacy source environments and will contain important information such as:• Source of the data (e.g., legacy feed, legacy program data, external data source, future data entry, ormanual data conversion)• Flow of the data• Data format and storage (i.e., flat positional data, structured extract, and unstructured extract)• Establish conversion plans for manual data including a strategy and detailed process for how thismanual data will be converted• Establish the migration strategy for documents, images, and other files to be converted into TeamNoridian’s OnBase solution, where historical images are stored during conversion• Establish the conversion execution plan describing how the tasks and activities will be carried out• Develop the conversion test strategy• Establish and publish the proposed conversion production timeline including day-by-daycutover activitiesTeam Noridian will develop a detailed Conversion Plan. Team Noridian will work with the Department todevelop and deliver a Conversion Plan that will include the following:• Conversion processes, including associated stages, tasks, activities, ownership, and deliverables withinterdependencies with other development methodology processes for the rest of the system.• Conversion procedures describing how each task and activity will be performed.• The use of conversion tools. Team Noridian will leverage our experience and tools based on similarconversion efforts in other states.• A description of how the master list of legacy data files is created and maintained. This master listwill identify data in the legacy source environment, which contains important information such as:• Source of data (e.g., legacy feed, legacy program data, non-legacy external data source, futuredata entry, or manual data conversion)• Flow of data• Format (i.e., flat positional data, structured extract, and unstructured extract) and storage.• Manual conversion plans with a strategy and detailed process on how manual data will be converted.• Data conversion execution strategy describing how the tasks and activities will be carried out.8 | 93