The Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) is an initiative of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), aligned with the National Health Infrastructure Initiative (NHII), and intended to foster integrated business and information technology transformation across the Medicaid enterprise to improve the administration of the Medicaid program.

Because of the increasing costs and needs of Medicaid Managament Information Systems (MMIS) to keep up with the rate of change in the healthcare industry, standards have emerged that will aid these systems in data exchange while staying current with national initiatives such as NHII, FHA, CHI, and others. The MITA aims to incorporate many of the relavant standards into an architecture model that will be used to build and enhance Medicaid healthcare systems as well as the data exchange between system components, and drive system design from a business and beneficiary-centric perspective.

The MITA objectives are specifically to:

1. Adobt data and industy standards,
2. Promote secure data exchange,
3. Promote reusable component through standard interfaces and modularity,
4. Promote efficient and effective data sharing to meet, stakeholder needs,
5. Provide a beneficiary-centric focus,
6. Support interoperability and integration using open architecture and data standards,
7. Support integration of clinical and administrative data to enable better decision making,
8. Break down artificial boundaries between systems, geography, and funding (within the Medicaid program)