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Cross-program view will reduce fraud and abuse: Bull Services has announced it has selected the Teradata Warehouse, from Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, as its data warehouse platform to implement a new advanced business intelligence solution designed to help more efficiently manage the state of California's $37 billion Medicaid program (Medi-Cal), and improve health care services for millions of residents. The California Department of Health Services (CDHS), which runs the Medi-Cal program, will administer this contract. "We selected Teradata as the platform for the state of California because it is the acknowledged leader in data warehousing technology and because it uniquely met the performance and scalability requirements of the state," said Jonathan Burbank, president and chief executive officer of Bull Services in the United States, the prime contractor for the four-year contract. The Medi-Cal program pays for a variety of medical services for children and adults with limited income and resources. It now has 6.6 million beneficiaries — making it responsible for improving the overall health of about one out of every five Californians. "Bull Services has successfully implemented very similar solutions on the Teradata platform throughout the public sector. Their state health care business intelligence solutions for Michigan, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and Utah are powered by Teradata," said Jamil Hermes, vice president, NCR Government Systems, LLC. The Bull Services solution, running on the Teradata Warehouse, will place Medi-Cal among the nation's leaders in managing medical assistance programs. It will help Medi-Cal to better support its goal of managing medical services in a fiscally prudent manner through developing partnerships with providers and medical service organizations, and encouraging comprehensive, organized health care delivery systems. The new California system is named the data warehousing Management Information System/Decision Support System (MIS/DSS) business intelligence solution. It will store all the Medi-Cal health care information. The centralization of enterprise data is becoming more widely adopted among large companies, which are building centralized data warehouses for strategic reasons. Key among the reasons is the need to access all relevant information from across the business on a moment's notice to make more precise decisions. The CDHS will be able to easily analyze extremely large amounts of data within minutes and in real time. This will enable CDHS analysts to make informed decisions about individual and statewide health care. Also, it will offer the department the capability to track and monitor an individual's care and cost. MIS/DSS will facilitate new levels of analytical capabilities for CDHS, enabling the department the capability to conduct sophisticated trend analyses and predictive modeling - all designed to reduce costs and improve health services while reducing fraud and abuse. JEN Associates, Inc. (JAI) has been selected by Bull Services to deploy JAI's market-leading Medicaid Performance Benchmarks and related consulting services, as part of Bull's next generation Management Information System/Decision Support System (MIS/DSS) business intelligence solution that it will provide to the State of California. The Bull Services solution, aided by JAI services, will enable DHS to better manage costs and improve the quality of care provided to Californians. Working with Bull Services, JAI will embed a customized set of performance benchmarks that will be extracted from JAI's national, integrated Medicaid and Medicare benchmark database, into Bull Services' data warehousing and decision support solution. Dan Gilden, President and CEO of JAI said, "Bull Services' deployment of our analytic capabilities in the Medi-Cal program will be one of the most innovative in the country. JAI is excited to work with Bull Services and Medi-Cal on these advanced information strategies."