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HIE trends and healthcare data priorities at Civitas 2026

15 Sep What to Watch at Civitas 2026: HIEs Take on a Bigger Role in Healthcare Transformation

Posted at 14:05h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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Top Takeaways • HIEs are increasingly serving as critical state, regional and national healthcare infrastructure. • Data quality and standardization are becoming more important as HIEs support more sophisticated uses of healthcare data. • The focus is expanding from exchanging information to using connected data to improve care coordination and patient outcomes. • Rural Health Transformation is creating opportunities for HIEs and other organizations to build infrastructure that can support rural communities over the long term. • As the role...

Healthcare AI ROI and AI ready healthcare data

10 Sep Healthcare Is Scaling AI. Can It Prove the ROI?

Posted at 08:48h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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Top Takeaways • Healthcare organizations are scaling AI faster than many can consistently measure its financial impact. • Deloitte research cited by Becker’s found that 44 percent of surveyed healthcare organizations were AI “scalers,” but only 18 percent of those organizations had mature capabilities for consistently attributing AI investments to revenue growth or cost savings. • Measuring AI ROI requires reliable baselines, consistent performance data, and clear metrics for determining whether AI is actually improving outcomes. • Fragmented, incomplete,...

Trusted healthcare data supporting Rural Health Transformation and rural healthcare organizations

02 Sep Healthcare Business Today: Why Trusted Data Will Define Rural Health Transformation

Posted at 12:43h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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Top Takeaways • The Rural Health Transformation Program creates an opportunity for states to build healthcare data infrastructure that continues delivering value long after federal funding has been spent. • Rural healthcare depends on information moving across hospitals, clinics, specialists, pharmacies, community organizations, and other settings, making trusted and usable data essential to care coordination. • HIEs are well positioned to play a larger role in RHTP by supporting statewide data infrastructure, analytics, quality measurement, population health,...

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

Posted at 13:13h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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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...

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

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

Posted at 10:07h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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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...

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

Posted at 07:46h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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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...

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

Posted at 09:46h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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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 information exchanges preparing for Rural Health Transformation with trusted healthcare data

22 Jul The Next Opportunity for HIEs Is Rural Health Transformation

Posted at 09:50h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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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...

14 Jul Congress Gives MSSP ACOs More Time. Here’s How to Use It.

Posted at 15:35h in Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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Top Takeaways • The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation that would extend quality reporting flexibility for MSSP ACOs through performance year 2029, recognizing that many organizations are not yet ready for fully electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting. • The extension reflects ongoing challenges with EHR readiness, data quality, and interoperability rather than a delay in the industry's move toward digital quality measurement. • Organizations that use this time to strengthen data quality, standardize clinical...

02 Jul Healthcare Has Achieved Interoperability. Now Comes the Hard Part: Data Standardization

Posted at 09:46h in Health Payers, Hospitals and Clinics by Matt Langan 0 Comments

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Top Takeaways • Healthcare interoperability has reached an important milestone, but exchanging data is only the first step toward improving care and operational performance.• TEFCA and the CMS Health Tech Ecosystem are accelerating secure health information exchange across the industry.• Health plans are moving from experimentation to operationalization as AI becomes embedded into workflows such as risk adjustment, claims, and utilization management. • The next challenge is ensuring exchanged data is standardized, trusted, and ready to support...