Author: DesignWorks

01 Jul Payers: How to Scale SDOH Across Lines of Business and Demographics

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Over the past several years, health payers have been launching new Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) strategies to best address population health and drive down long-term costs. In addition to bridging the gap between payers and providers, there have been some new efforts to further scale SDOH efforts, which is the foundation of the Humana Bold Gold effort. In 2015, Humana announced its Bold Goal, a population health strategy to improve the health of the communities the...

29 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers and SDOH Goals; Improving Member Engagement; and Better EHR Usability

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. How Payers Scale Social Determinants of Health Goals Humana’s Bold Goal...

24 Jun Health Payers Ramp Up Telehealth Strategies

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In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth has undoubtedly become the top 2020 health IT story. For providers, it offers a path to expand care coverage for both patients impacted by the pandemic, as well as for those who need routine care. For payers, telehealth actually rose 50 times in usage over the past several months. Though challenges with determining coverage for new and different sites of care and technologies, as well as state and...

22 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers and Telehealth Expansion; BCBRI and Population Health; and NEHII and SDOH

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. COVID-19 Spotlights 3 Payer Telehealth Expansion Challenges Payer telehealth strategies face...

17 Jun Bridging the Social Determinants of Health Gap Between Payers and Providers

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One of the challenges of embracing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) is that patients don’t often like to disclose information about their housing, access to healthy foods, or transportation challenges. Conversely, for providers, it is often difficult to ask patients SDOH-related questions, which are important to providing the best quality of care possible. To address this, the Community Health Plan of Washington is embracing both training providers and population health management tools to bridge the SDOH gap...

15 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payers, SDOH and Population-Based Data; HHS COVID-19 Data Reporting; and Payer Spending

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. Addressing Social Determinants of Health Requires Population-Based Data Community Health Plan...

10 Jun Role of Health Data Analytics in Post COVID-19 World

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For many years, health data analytics has played a tremendous role in enhancing the quality of care, as well as driving down overall costs for health systems, payers and HIEs. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced how vital health data is for rapid care response. For example, Reliance eHealth Collaborative developed and implemented a wide-range of use cases for enhancing its stakeholders’ pandemic response. Leveraging the IMAT platform, these use cases span everything from notification of COVID-19 test...

08 Jun Health Data News Roundup: COVID-19 Healthcare Spending; BCBS and ACA Marketplaces; and IMAT Named in Gartner Payer Report

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today’s care organizations need to be on the forefront of all news and trends to help ensure that their data analytics efforts deliver accountable and informed care. Each week, we will provide you with the actionable news you need to meet these goals. COVID-19 Healthcare Spending Hinges On Hospitalization Rates As payers setting rates...

01 Jun Health Data News Roundup: Payer Claims to Rise in Coming Months; CMS and Telehealth; and IMAT Becomes NCQA Beta Partner

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27 May Did You Know that the IMAT Platform Brings More Meaning to Data Through Natural Language Processing?

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With ongoing pressure to leverage increasing amounts of validated patient data, many care providers are seeking ways to identify concepts, context and codify unstructured text based data. Did you know that the IMAT platform can help achieve this through Natural Language Processing (NLP)? By using best-of-breed NLP technologies, IMAT transforms and annotates unstructured medical narratives – such as those found in medical records or dictated clinical summaries – and turns them into actionable data. This provides the opportunity...