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Date: January 22, 2002

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES
OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR

OFFICE OF INFORMATION SERVICES
(FBB)

• Serves as the focal point for the responsibilities of the Agency’s Chief Information Officer in planning, organizing, and coordinating the activities required to maintain an agency-wide Information Resources Management (IRM) program.

• Ensures the effective management of the Agency’s information technology, and information systems and resources (e.g., implementation and administration of a change management process).

• Provides workstation, server, and local area network support for CMS-wide activities. Works with customer components to develop requirements, needs and cost benefit analysis in support of the LAN infrastructure including hardware, software and office automation services.

• Serves as the lead for developing and enforcing the Agency’s information architecture, policies, standards, and practices in all areas of information technology.

• Develops and maintains enterprise-wide central databases, statistical files, and general access paths, ensuring the quality of information maintained in these data sources.

• Directs Medicare claims payment systems activities, including CWF operation, as well as systems conversion activities.

• Develops ADP standards and policies for use by internal CMS staff and contractor agents in such areas as applications development and use of the infrastructure resources.

• Manages and directs the operation of CMS hardware infrastructure, including the Agency’s Data Center, data communications networks, enterprise infrastructure, voice/data switch, audio conferencing and other data centers supporting CMS programs.

• Leads the coordination, development, implementation and maintenance of health care information standards in the health care industry.

• Provides Medicare and Medicaid information to the public, within the parameters imposed by the Privacy Act.

• Performs information collection analyses as necessary to satisfy the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act.

• Directs CMS’s ADP systems security program with respect to data, hardware, and software.

• Directs and advises the Administrator, senior staff, and components on the requirements, policies, and administration of the Privacy Act.