{"id":2432,"date":"2009-09-22T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2009-09-22T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T20:37:38","slug":"oldskool_infras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2432","title":{"rendered":"Old-Skool Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daily visit to BoingBoing caused me to do a double-take today when I saw a post entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/22\/american-health-care.html\">American health care UI: snapshot<\/a>&#8221; showing a screenshot from a computer system used at my workplace.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/WWW.the19thfloor.net\/screen2.jpg?resize=478%2C247\" height=\"247\" width=\"478\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that&#8217;s a screenshot from MMIS, a system that the Minnesota Department of Human Services uses to process claims from thousands of Medicaid providers (doctors, hospitals, etc.). The post refers to it as a &#8220;&#8216;throwback&#8217; system that hasn&#8217;t really been overhauled for a few years.&#8221; Actually, MMIS has been around for almost 20 years and it certainly won&#8217;t win any awards for prettiest user interface. That said, this system enables Minnesota to process Medicaid claims much more quickly than a lot of other states. I&#8217;d be surprised if the claims processing systems for private insurers like Medica or Ucare look much different. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daily visit to BoingBoing caused me to do a double-take today when I saw a post entitled &#8220;American health care UI: snapshot&#8221; showing a screenshot from a computer system used at my workplace. If I&#8217;m not mistaken, that&#8217;s a screenshot from MMIS, a system that the Minnesota Department of Human Services uses to process <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2432' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-De","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}