“TurningPoint Global Solutions LLC., today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (CMS’) National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) has been named a winner of the 2018 Federal Health IT Innovation Award, presented June 12, 2018 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.”
“NPPES is a web-based system designed to assign standard unique identifiers for healthcare providers and health plans so that electronic transmission of health information can be accomplished more effectively, efficiently, and securely. In order to improve user verification and enhance fraud, waste, and abuse identification initiatives TurningPoint integrated the modernized NPPES solution with several other healthcare systems and technologies, including: PECOS, NPPES Public Search, CMS Identification and Access (I&A), End User Support (EUS), and the NPPES Virtual Data Center (VDC). This enables NPPES to cross-reference data in near-real-time, improving data accuracy while keeping the registration process for users efficient and streamlined.”
“The NPPES team increased application usability and met the US Digital Service mission by using open source products to improve efficiency and effectiveness, simplify the user experience, and implement enhancements such as a delegation function, automated form completion, self-service, and smart search features. As a result of these modernization activities, NPPES usage has improved significantly and manual interventions have declined by 50 percent…”
“Award winners were determined by a panel of judges that included government and industry leaders who evaluated applicants from across the industry, selecting awardees based on their willingness to take on achievable risk and to deliver real results in support of their mission.”
“This is the second Federal Health IT Innovation Award for TurningPoint, having previously won in the Big Data category for the CMS Advanced Provider Screening (APS) program in 2015…” Read the full press release here.
Source: CMS National Plan Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Solution Wins Federal Health IT Innovation Award – August 1, 2018, PRWeb.
