About Us
The New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO) is a non-profit corporation organized by the six New England Health and Human services agencies and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
The mission of our organization is to foster communication and collaboration among our members through information sharing and joint projects. It is our goal to support the health and human services policy and system needs of the New England states by providing a framework for knowledge exchange in order to maximize policy, program and cost effectiveness.
Our Staff
- Facilitate information exchange with national and state representatives of government and private agencies to identify collaborative opportunities
- Provide conference planning and round table discussion support on topics of general interest
- Assist in the development reports and briefing materials
- Manage the completion of multi-state projects with Board approval
- Provide access to pre-qualified consultants
- Investigate potential collaborative solutions to ensure cost effective programs
- Work with the University of Massachusetts Medical School and other firms on partnering opportunities related to revenue recovery and other initiatives
- Assist states with development of RFP's, grant proposals, etc.
- Coordinate teleconferencing and web casting assistance
The New England States Consortium Systems Organization (NESCSO) is developing a regional data warehouse to provide New England states the ability to conduct timely comparative analyses for the effective and efficient administration of the states’ Medicaid State Plans and to support the regional initiatives of the NESCSO members. Using recent Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) claims data, the warehouse is designed to provide the following benefits for NESCSO members:
- Benchmark state expenditures across the region
- Conduct comparative analysis of program expenditures
- Track patient utilization and provider activity
- Enhance a state’s individual data analysis capacity
- Address regional issues (e.g., legislative questions)
- Identify cost savings and quality improvement opportunities
- Assist the states in the monitoring of program integrity and in the identification of potential regional fraud waste and abuse.
In collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, NESCSO is creating this tool to facilitate informed business decisions and the exchange of Medicaid business information within the New England region. The design of the NESCSO data warehouse is based upon the Universal Data Warehouse model which is well known in the industry. It is easily customized to match an individual State’s requirements and designed for easy reporting with standard tools (e.g. SAS). NESCSO members have the ability to access standard reports, graphic dashboards with summaries of key indicators and trends, data extracts for graphing and analysis and a Business Intelligence (BI) solution for online data analysis and reporting. NESCSO works with each of its members to securely transfer and update MMIS claims data into the warehouse system. For additional information, please contact Nancy Peterson of NESCSO at 508.856.6425 or at Nancy.Peterson@umassmed.edu.
- Timely news and current awareness services via the New England News section of our website and periodic updates via e-newsletters
- Proactive solutions such as demographic analysis to provide states with tools for informed decision making
- Access to our web-based library and archive service on topics relevant to Medicaid and Health and Human Services
- Information research requests from member states may be submitted to NESCSO 's Information Specialist on any health care topic. We will work with you to successfully satisfy your information needs through access to commercial databases or primary literature tools such as surveys, etc.
NESCSO supports its core mission to foster collaboration and information exchange through various web-based tools. All employees of New England health and human services agencies, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Region I of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid may access these tools through our secure web portal.
Our unique website at www.nescso.org offers features such as daily Medicaid and health news updates, links to national and regional sites and individua lized favorites. Our comprehensive library brings together relevant literature and reports from key public and private resources as well as summarized research projects completed for our members.
Members also have the ability to request specific information on any healthcare topic directly from our website. Additionally, the website is linked to ONTRAK , our personal planner and project tracking system.ONTRAK is a free, secure, online web based project management program, which allows communication between project specific members via various tools such as a threaded discussion and document sharing. Anyone within the New England States Health and Human Services agencies, and other individuals on a case-by-case basis may initiate a project and add members. Anyone added to a project is automatically notified via e-mail with a link to the project and a password. Only members of a specific project can access the information contained within the project. This system allows instant updates on changes in projects and easy access to personal planner features. Since the system is web-based, it is available from anywhere with internet access.
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