Part 4 - Iowa Medicaid Enterprise

RFP MED-12-001 | Technical ProposalIowa Medicaid Enterprise System Service Procurement | MMIS and Core MMIS OperationsProviding Walk-Through and System DemonstrationsRFP Section 6.3.2.2.2, Requirement dTeam Noridian will provide staged walk-through and demonstrations of the different business areas ormodules during the JAD sessions as part of the Analysis and Design activities, and again during theiteration sessions planned as part of the Development activities.During these staged walk-through and demonstrations of the different business process areas, the Departmentwill be able to evaluate the functionality available, and its usability as designed for the new MMIS.Presenting Standard Output ReportsRFP Section 6.3.2.2.2, Requirement eThe primary reporting tool in Team Noridian’s solution is IBM’s Cognos Business Intelligence suite,including access to reports for casual users and powerful ad hoc query and report creation tools for moreadvanced users. The OnBase document management system provides a secure report repository, reportmanagement, and report access tool. Cognos has the ability to generate multiple output formats, includingtext, HTML, CSV, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and XML. It also includes the ability to develop graphsand charts, either within the Cognos report designer or by using an external application such as Excel.Reports for eCAMS are generated either directly from the online database or from the Operational DataStore (ODS). In most implementations, the daily reports are generated from online database and the otherreports from the ODS. This is done to ensure that reports do not access large volumes of data in the onlinesystem and impact its performance. All access to reports is provided through the list of Web pages withinthe MMIS called the Report Access Portal (RAP). The RAP allows access to Cognos as well as OnBase.Team Noridian will present all the standard reports in the Analysis and Design Phase, during the iterationsessions planned for each business process area. The Department will have the ability to verify the format,columns, sort order and search criteria where applicable, and provide approvals for these reports.Demonstrating Functionality of All InterfacesRFP Section 6.3.2.2.2, Requirement fTeam Noridian's new MMIS uses the EXACT SOA infrastructure framework to automate themanagement, monitoring, and reporting of interface performance. The ability to create interfaces andpublish them as services, monitor performance, provide alerts, execute escalation procedures, and whenappropriate, automate error handling and exception resolution, are out-of-the-box capabilities of EXACT.Engaging EXACT's Integration Services, comprising of its ESB, Mediation and translation services, andService Registry, as well as EXACT's orchestration, rules, and Extract Transform Load services, TeamNoridian is capable of rapidly developing and deploying interfaces and associated business processes,based on each interface's requirements.Within EXACT, individual interfaces are built as services. With this approach, the operational andfunctional description for each interface as well as information relating to the integrated system and uniquecharacteristics of an interface are defined within the metadata wrapper associated with each interface. Thismetadata, or abstract, defining each interface is published to EXACT's Service Register, which uses theUniversal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) standard to store and register services.The business process for each interface is determined by its specific requirements. The process is builtusing EXACT's orchestration services, which leverages and enhances the capabilities of the ActiveVOSBPEL/BPMN engine used by EXACT. The definition of an interface's business process is also stored inthe Service Registry.8 | 126