Author: Matt Langan

IMAT Solutions showcasing HIE data quality and the Health Data Quality Assessment at Civitas 2026

26 Aug IMAT to Showcase Health Data Quality for HIEs at Civitas 2026

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Top Takeaways • IMAT Solutions will be a Silver Sponsor of the 2026 Civitas Annual Conference, September 22–24 in Arlington, Virginia.• HIEs have an opportunity to expand their role beyond data exchange by providing trusted data infrastructure for population health, quality reporting, analytics, AI, value-based care, and statewide healthcare initiatives.• Expanding those services requires HIEs to understand the quality, completeness, consistency, and usability of the data moving through their networks.• The IMAT Health Data Quality Assessment...

Health Data News Roundup covering healthcare AI readiness, ACO technology, payer modernization, and health data sharing

24 Aug Health Data News Roundup: AI Should Not Automate Data Problems; MA Plan Dissatisfaction; and AI Governance

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights how organizations are strengthening the foundations needed to support AI, value-based care, and more connected healthcare. From AI-ready data and payer modernization to ACO technology readiness, automated consent, and AI governance, healthcare leaders are confronting the data and operational challenges that can determine whether new technologies deliver meaningful results. AI Shouldn’t Automate Healthcare’s Data Problems Healthcare organizations should address fragmented...

AI-ready healthcare data supporting better AI, clinical workflows, analytics, and decision making

19 Aug AI Shouldn’t Automate Healthcare’s Data Problems

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Top Takeaways • AI can accelerate healthcare workflows, but it can also magnify longstanding problems with fragmented data, redundant processes, and inconsistent information. • Healthcare organizations should evaluate the data and workflows behind a process before using AI to automate it.• AI-ready healthcare data must be complete, standardized, normalized, and usable across systems and applications.• A trusted enterprise data foundation can support AI while also improving quality reporting, analytics, population health, and other healthcare priorities.• AI implementation...

Health Data News Roundup covering healthcare AI governance, rural health AI, data usability, and value-based care

17 Aug Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI Governance Lags; Rural Health AI Questions; and Data Usability Challenges

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights the growing gap between AI adoption and the data, governance, and workflows needed to support it. From AI readiness and rural healthcare to data usability, value-based care, and the practical approaches being taken by community health systems, healthcare leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring new technologies deliver measurable value for organizations and patients. Healthcare AI Adoption Outpaces Data and...

Healthcare data usability supporting AI, analytics, quality reporting, and digital transformation

12 Aug Healthcare Doesn’t Have a Data Shortage. It Has a Data Usability Problem

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Top Takeaways • Healthcare organizations have access to enormous volumes of data, but much of it still requires significant work before it can support clinical, operational, and strategic decisions. • Interoperability has improved access to healthcare data, but exchanging information does not automatically make it standardized, trusted, or usable. • Poor data usability creates hidden operational costs through manual reconciliation, duplicate processes, fragmented reporting, and repeated data preparation. • A trusted enterprise data foundation can allow the same...

Health Data News Roundup covering AI infrastructure, Rural Health Transformation, data readiness, and EHR interoperability

10 Aug Health Data News Roundup: Payers Need AI Infrastructure; Rural Providers and RHTP Funding; and Data Readiness

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights the infrastructure and data foundations needed to turn healthcare innovation into meaningful results. From payer investments in AI and the future of Rural Health Transformation to data readiness and standardized EHR exchange, healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on building the trusted data environments needed to improve efficiency, strengthen decision making, and support better care. Healthcare Payers Need AI Infrastructure,...

Health Data News Roundup featuring USCDI Version 7, Rural Health Transformation, AI, and payer collaboration

03 Aug Health Data News Roundup: ONC Releases USCDI Version 7; States Address Rural Health Transformation; and Payers and Admin Complexity

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights how healthcare organizations are laying the foundation for the next generation of interoperability, AI, and value-based care. From new national data standards and Rural Health Transformation initiatives to payer collaboration and administrative simplification, healthcare leaders are increasingly recognizing that trusted, standardized data is essential for improving efficiency, supporting better decisions, and delivering higher-quality care ONC Releases USCDI Version 7...

Mark Coetzer discusses how the Rural Health Transformation Program is helping HIEs build trusted healthcare data for interoperability, AI, and quality reporting.

29 Jul Q&A: Rural Health Transformation Starts with Trusted Data

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Conversation with Mark Coetzer, VP of Business Development at IMAT Solutions Top Takeaways • The Rural Health Transformation Program is about building sustainable healthcare infrastructure, not simply distributing funding. • Health information exchanges have an opportunity to become the trusted data foundation supporting statewide healthcare transformation. • High-quality, standardized healthcare data is essential for AI, quality reporting, population health, and value-based care. • Organizations that strengthen data governance today will be better positioned to maximize Rural Health Transformation investments tomorrow. The...

Health Data News Roundup covering Rural Health Transformation, HIEs, TEFCA, and healthcare interoperability

27 Jul Health Data News Roundup: HIEs and Rural Health Transformation; Healthcare Data Requires More Than Interoperability; and TEFCA Oversight

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights the growing importance of trusted data infrastructure as healthcare organizations prepare for the next phase of digital transformation. From Rural Health Transformation and HIE modernization to TEFCA oversight and data governance, the focus is shifting beyond simply exchanging information to ensuring healthcare data is trusted, connected, and ready to support better care, stronger collaboration, and long-term innovation. The Next...

Health information exchanges preparing for Rural Health Transformation with trusted healthcare data

22 Jul The Next Opportunity for HIEs Is Rural Health Transformation

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Top Takeaways • The CMS Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) represents one of the largest federal investments in healthcare infrastructure in years, creating new opportunities for health information exchanges (HIEs) to expand their role in statewide healthcare transformation. • Modern HIEs are evolving beyond clinical data exchange to support payer-provider connectivity, prior authorization, population health, quality reporting, and AI-ready healthcare ecosystems.• Success under RHTP will depend on more than interoperability. HIEs need trusted, standardized, and actionable data...