Author: Matt Langan

03 Jun Why Health Plan Data Infrastructure Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage

Top Takeaways • Health plan leaders increasingly view actionable data as a strategic asset for improving affordability, operational efficiency, and member outcomes. • AI adoption is accelerating across payer organizations, but success depends on trusted, normalized, and auditable healthcare data. • Health plans are moving from experimentation to operationalization as AI becomes embedded into workflows such as risk adjustment, claims, and utilization management. • Data quality and interoperability remain foundational challenges that must be addressed before organizations can fully...

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01 Jun Health Data News Roundup: AI with Dwarf Every Health IT Shift; Health Plan Trends; and Ken Barbe New IMAT CEO

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions.This week's healthcare data trends highlight the growing importance of AI infrastructure, interoperability, payer transformation, and trusted data foundations as healthcare organizations prepare for an increasingly digital future. Beyond the EHR: Why One CIO Believes AI Will Dwarf Every Prior Health IT Shift Healthcare leaders should view artificial intelligence as a transformational shift that will extend far beyond traditional electronic health record (EHR) systems and health systems...

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26 May Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI Needs Quality Data; MA Transparency Overhaul; and C3HIE Live on TEFCA

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. Why Quality Data is Key to Healthcare AI Fulfilling Its...

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22 May Medicare Advantage Compliance Is Entering a New Phase. Health Plans Need Better Data Foundations.

Top Takeaways • Medicare Advantage oversight is intensifying as CMS and federal regulators place greater scrutiny on audit readiness, risk adjustment accuracy, and data integrity. • Risk adjusted data validation is becoming more critical as plans prepare for increasing compliance expectations and operational complexity.• Fragmented data environments create compliance risk when clinical, claims, and encounter data cannot be trusted or validated consistently.• Audit ready data infrastructure is becoming essential as health plans face growing pressure to support...

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18 May Health Data News Roundup: Trump Seeks to Relax Healthcare AI Safeguards; ONC and TEFCA Transparency: and AI and MSSP ACOs

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. Trump and Kennedy Seek to Relax Safeguards for AI Healthcare...

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13 May AI Is Moving Beyond Experimentation. MSSP ACOs Need the Data Infrastructure to Keep Up.

Top Takeaways • AI is moving from experimental to operational across MSSP ACOs as organizations increasingly embed AI into clinical, quality, and care management workflows.• Real-time data infrastructure is becoming essential as ACOs shift from retrospective reporting toward continuous performance monitoring and operational decision making.• Fragmented and delayed data remains a major barrier to scalable AI adoption and value-based care success.• MSSP APP reporting is accelerating the need for trusted data as ACOs move toward full...

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11 May Health Data News Roundup: AI Infrastructure Problems; AI and HIEs; and NAACOS Focus on AI for ACOs

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. AI Won’t Fix Healthcare Until We Fix the Infrastructure Most health...

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07 May HL7, FHIR, and the HIE Reality: Why Interoperability Still Depends on Data Intelligence

Top Takeaways • HL7 v2 remains foundational because it still powers much of healthcare’s day to day operational data exchange and continues to support core clinical workflows across the industry. • FHIR accelerated interoperability by making data exchange more practical, flexible, and developer friendly, allowing healthcare organizations to adopt API based integration faster than any previous HL7 standard. • Legacy standards are not disappearing as HL7 v2, CDA, and FHIR now coexist across healthcare environments and must be...

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04 May Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI No Longer Experimental; CMS Health Tech Ecosystem and HIEs; and Prior Authorization Standardization

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. AI in Healthcare is No Longer Experimental AI is no longer...

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29 Apr Healthcare Business Today: Why MSSP ACOs Must Rethink Data Infrastructure for the APP Era

Top Takeaways • APP reporting requires MSSP ACOs to move beyond sampling and manual chart abstraction to support full population digital quality reporting.• Clinical data quality now directly impacts performance, making complete, standardized, and report ready data essential for accurate measurement.• Fragmented data environments across EHRs, coding systems, and provider workflows make full population reporting far more difficult at scale.• Manual chart chasing is no longer sustainable and is being replaced by centralized data curation and...

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