Part III - TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION
Guidance fot The Medicaid IT Architecture (MITA) Framework that contains three interrelated architectures:
Business Architecture (BA), Information Architecture (IA), and Technical Architecture (TA),
shown in Figure 1-1. The business capabilities from BA define the data strategy of IA and
design the business and technical services of TA. MITA uses all three architectures to
develop a business-driven enterprise to provide consistency across the Medicaid Enterprise
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: February 01, 2012
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