isConsilium is very proud to announce that one of their development teams was recognized by the New York State Department of Health, and awarded the 2010 Commissioner’s Recognition Award. The isC team worked side-by-side with business representatives from the Office of Long Term Care to collect requirements and implement the web-based application that currently reports on over 210,000 home health care aides throughout New York State. The application went live on September 25th, 2010. Read More...

Tags: The New York State Department of Health, Home Care Registry, Prescription Drug Price Website

In the spring of 2008, Consilium conducted a series of gap analysis sessions at the New York State Department of Health (DOH) as an initial step in implementing the Contract Management System (CMS) at that agency. The objectives of the engagement were threefold. First, the analysis would identify CMS functionalities that would require modification or enhancement in order to conform to DOH business rules and requirements. Second, an assessment would be made of modifications needed to accommodate the DOH technical architecture, as well as both internal and external interfaces, such as the bulkload process with the New York State Central Accounting System via the DOH financial system. And finally, a data conversion plan would be developed.
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Tags: CMS, The New York State Department of Health

One of the challenges of implementing the Contract Management System (CMS) across multiple agencies is the management and documentation of agency-specific customization of the application. Consilium is committed to ensuring the integrity of a single CMS which means that all modifications must be configurable while being deployed to all agency installations. However, we also recognize that some development will be decentralized to individual agencies and accordingly, requirement and development documentation will be decentralized. So how do we maintain a single repository of documentation in a decentralized environment? Over the past few months, Consilium has begun organizing documentation within a website using MediaWiki software which is the very same software used by Wikipedia.
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Tags: Wiki, CMS