The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is looking for vendors to run its National Data Warehouse, a database for capturing, aggregating, and analyzing information related to beneficiary and customer experiences with Medicare and the federal Obamacare marketplaces. Although the database primarily consists of quality control metrics related to individuals interactions with customer service, potential contractors are to [d]emonstrate ... experience with scalability and security in protecting data and information with customer, person-sensitive information including Personal Health Information and Personally Identifiable information (personal health records, etc.). Vendors are also instructed that one of the requirements of a possible future contract would be [e]nsuring that all products developed and delivered adhere to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance standards. For a number of years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the division of HHS responsible for Medicare and now Obamacare also, has maintained a national data warehouse (NDW) related to the 1-800-MEDICARE helpline. The passage of the Affordable Care Act and subsequent establishment of the Marketplaces has expanded the scope of the NDW. The CMS notice explains the NDW as follows: weeklystandard/blogs/feds-looking-company-run-national-data-warehouse-obamacare-medicare_822642.html
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 22:30:00 +0000
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