27 Aug Healthcare Business Today: AI Ready Health Data in the Era of Smarter Care

Healthcare is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the rise in artificial intelligence (AI). From predictive analytics to care coordination, AI is poised to reshape how organizations improve outcomes, engage patients, and manage resources.

However, as IMAT Solutions’ Mark Coetzer recently explained in his new guest article for Healthcare Business Today, the success of AI in healthcare depends on one critical factor, AI ready health data.

Why AI Ready Health Data Matters

AI models are only as strong as the data that fuels them. If healthcare data is incomplete, inconsistent, or trapped in silos, then even the most advanced AI algorithms will fail to deliver meaningful insights. In fact, nearly half of healthcare leaders cite poor data quality and weak integration as their biggest barriers to AI adoption.

That is why making health data AI ready has become a strategic priority. AI ready data must be clean, current, complete, and available in real time. It requires seamless integration across EHRs, labs, imaging systems, claims data, and even patient-generated sources like wearables. It also demands compliance with interoperability standards such as FHIR and the 21st Century Cures Act, as well as governance practices that keep data accurate and secure.

From Fragmentation to Confidence

Too often, healthcare data management has been fragmented across departments and applications, leaving AI teams and clinicians with an incomplete picture. The result is slower adoption, limited trust, and underwhelming results.

IMAT Solutions helps organizations overcome this challenge through our C3 Framework, which ensures all health data is Clean, Current, and Complete. By automating ingestion, normalization, and enrichment, we deliver consistent and reliable data that care teams can trust.

When combined with real-time orchestration, this foundation allows insights such as care gap alerts or risk notifications to be delivered directly into clinical workflows.

This is how data becomes AI ready, and how organizations can move from fragmented processes to data confidence.

The Role of IMAT Intelligence

At the heart of IMAT’s approach is IMAT Intelligence, our next-generation Health Data Intelligence Platform designed specifically to make healthcare data AI ready. IMAT Intelligence goes beyond simple aggregation or storage. It provides a complete environment where data from across the care continuum is unified, normalized, enriched, and secured for real-world use.

Key capabilities include:

• Business Intelligence: Real-time analytics and predictive insights that help organizations move from reactive reporting to proactive action.

• Data Intelligence: Seamless interoperability and data sharing across all major EHR systems, labs, imaging platforms, and more.

• Security Intelligence: HIPAA-compliant safeguards and robust governance frameworks that protect sensitive health information while enabling trusted collaboration.

• Artificial Intelligence Enablement: Advanced tools that make both structured and unstructured data usable for AI models, unlocking insights from clinical notes, diagnostic reports, and patient-generated data.

Because IMAT Intelligence is cloud based and modular, organizations can start small and scale quickly as their needs evolve. This flexibility ensures that every healthcare network, from integrated delivery networks to community-based providers, can build an AI ready data foundation without prohibitive cost or complexity.

Smarter Care Starts Here

As Mark’s article highlights, AI ready health data enables real-world impact. With the right data foundation, health plans can predict diabetic complications before they occur, providers can intervene earlier to close care gaps, and health systems can make more proactive decisions that improve outcomes and reduce costs.

The future of healthcare AI will not be determined by who has the most advanced algorithms. It will be determined by who has the most trusted, AI ready data. At IMAT Solutions, we are proud to help healthcare organizations build that foundation.

Read the full guest article on Healthcare Business Today here. Also, contact IMAT Solutions today to see how we can make your healthcare data AI ready.