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Tata Infotech Sets Up HIPAA Centre In US
Author: Sitanshu Swain
Date: 09/07/2002
Source: Financial Express

Targeting a major chunk of new business in the $7 billion health care market, generated by way of the implementation of Health Insurance. Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Tata Infotech has developed
a HIPAA centre of excellence and a HIPAA methodology in US for the US health care market.

Tata Infotech earns 30 to 40 per cent of its income from financial services sector including banking and insurance. The HIPAA of 1996 with a deadline of 2003 makes it mandatory for US based companies dealing with health care and insurance to shift to state of the art technologies. The Act stipulates that such companies need to install
technology to improve efficiency, cut cost and make their networks more secure and respected, through better patient care.

“Tata Infotech is all geared up to be a technolgy partner of US health care majors who want to implement HIPAA within the specific deadline,’’ said a senior official of Tata Infotech.

He added that the changes triggered by HIPAA will create demands for technology products even after the deadline of 2003. The company with a vast experience in the healthcare domain, legacy systems, new technologies, systems integration and security has set up the HIPAA
centre to continuously upgrade HIPAA education and raining, research, development of tools and methodologies for HIPAA assessment and remedial services. The HIPAA Centre of excellence further has carried out a business as well as technical analysis of all the HIPAA transaction
sets, code of sets and identifiers and security regulations.

The company’s fast track HIPAA methodology is template and metrics driven to ensure results. It uses propriety as well as third party tools to accelerate the implementation of HIPAA in the health insurance companies. The company has proposed and implemented a long term migration strategy for one of the top five property and casualty
insurance companies in US, according to the official.

Back in the domestic market, Tata Infotech has prepared insurance solutions for Tata-AIG and Pune based National Insurance Academy. “We are also helping a lot of domestic insurance companies to infer data on different aspects of consumers and insurance selling,” said the official.

Tata Infotech is also focusing on the mergers and acquisition market where integration of different systems are necessary. The company’s business intelligence unit is developing software for checking malpractices in the $70-80 billion insurance industry.