Mita Compliance

The Medicaid Information Technology Architecture, or MITA, standard was created for the Federal Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to standardize access to medical data across the U.S., according to the CSG Government Solutions website.

States

• The Department of Vermont Health Access reports the MITA standard must be complied with when individual state and other health agencies establish, change or modify their Medicaid information technology systems. MITA includes national guidelines for technologies and processes used by Medicaid providers.

Types

• MITA standards must be complied with across three areas, business architecture, information architecture and technical architecture. By complying with MITA guidelines, a common information technology system can be created across the U.S., allowing access to medical data between state and other medical agencies.

Aim

• CSG Government Solutions reports the aim of MITA compliance is to produce information technology systems throughout the U.S. that provide the quickest and most cost effective Medicaid services available to individual states.