Medi Assist India Pvt Ltd. (MAIPL) has announced its partnership with HP to develop customized applications for running Third Party Administration (TPA) services and provide end-to-end healthcare solutions to customers. Medi Assist is one of India 's best-known third party administrators (TPAs) in the healthcare insurance space. The services of the company enable cashless hospitalization at pre-designated points of healthcare delivery, including hospitals and nursing homes, and in case of reimbursement claims, settlement of the same.
This initiative will help Medi Assist increase the capacity, speed and quality of the claims processing system and additionally, augment the suite of value added services the company offers corporate customers.
Given the explosive growth in the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries, there is increasing pressure on their backend processing systems, to keep pace. To tackle the increasing volume of claims at Medi Assist, HP has proposed a scalable claims processing system completely custom built to Medi Assist specifications, on HP industry standard servers and OpenSource Layered software. These applications are derived from HP's knowledge and vast experience in handling large volume transaction systems.
The partnership with HP ensures that as Medi Assist continues its rapid growth, all the IT components – servers, storage, applications and support are scalable and help the company stay ahead of this growth. Added to this, HP will provide the complete suite of project management and support capabilities to Medi Assist.
Distinct features of this partnership include the flexibility of the ‘scale up' model embraced, decision support, data analytics and data security, privacy of patient information conforming to HIPAA standards. Medi Assist will work with HP to enhance the solution as the patient records multiply and needs become more complex.
Says Mr. Kapil Jain, Vice President, Services at HP India Sales, “HP is proud to partner with Medi Assist to help strengthen its claims processing system and deliver high quality healthcare to end customers in a caring and cost effective manner. This partnership addresses the requirements of security and reliability while growing seamlessly as Medi Assist's own customer base grows and needs become more complex.”
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