The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration is modernizing its approach to overall Agency functions in order to build better connections to relevant data sources and programs, and improve health care options and outcomes. This initiative, known as Florida Health Care Connections (FX), is a multi-year transformation to enhance the provider and recipient experience, improve access to health care data, and enhance data integration between State of Florida agencies.

Transforming Florida’s Medicaid Enterprise to provide the greatest quality, the best experience, and the highest value in health care.

FX Guiding Principles

Enable high-quality and accessible data	Improve health care outcomes	Reduce complexity	Improve integration with partners
Use evidence-based decision-making	Improve provider and recipient experiences	Enable good stewardship of Medicaid funds	Enable holistic decision-making rather than short-term focus

Technology Trends

Health Care The value-based care model is becoming more common, which requires tracking health care outcomes rather than services delivered Interactions with managed care plans are changing the traditional roles and responsibilities

Technology Information Technology (IT) vendors are becoming more specialized in what they do Data sets and data needs are increasing in complexity Compatibility between different systems is of increasing importance

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) CMS issued a rule in 2016 requiring states to follow a modular approach to Medicaid IT acquisition, which reduces system risk compared to a single vendor system Modularity means States can take advantage of vendor specialization in niche offerings and that the latest technology and processes can be implemented more quickly and cost effectively