HP partners Medi Assist for Third Party Adminsitration services

Bangalore, May 17 (UNI) Medi Assist India Pvt Ltd. (MAIPL) has partnered Hewlett-Packard (HP) to develop customised applications for running Third Party Administration (TPA) services and provide end-to-end healthcare solutions to customers.

Medi Assist a leading TPAs in the healthcare insurance enabled cashless hospitalisation at pre-designated points of healthcare delivery, including hospitals and nursing homes, and in case of reimbursement claims, settlement of the same.

The initiative would 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, a HP-Media Assist joint release here said.

Given the explosive growth in the healthcare and healthcare insurance industries, there was 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 Open Source Layered software. These applications were derived from HP's knowledge and vast experience in handling large volume transaction systems, the release added.

The partnership with HP ensured that as Medi Assist continues its rapid growth, all the IT components- servers, storage, applications and support were scalable and help the company stay ahead of this growth. Added to this, HP would provide the complete suite of project management and support capabilities to Medi Assist.

UNI