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11 Jul Healthcare M&A: How to Ensure a Seamless Integration of All Health Data

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In 2024, hospital merger and acquisition activity has been at its highest since 2020. In the first quarter alone, there were 20 announced transactions generating $12 billion. Four of the transactions were mega-mergers, where the participants revenue exceeded $1 billion. Much of this heavy deal flow is a result of financial pressures and portfolio realignments to help care systems remain competitive in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. In any M&A setting, there are always challenges around management...

08 Nov HHS Releases Proposed Rule for Information Blocking Disincentives

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IMAT Data-as-a-Service Solution Viable Option for Enhancing Clinical Data Integration Capabilities Last week, HHS released a proposed rule for public comment that would establish disincentives for healthcare providers who have committed information blocking. This is when a provider knowingly and unreasonably interferes with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information except as required by law or covered by a regulatory exception, according to HHS. The disincentives impacts eligible hospital or critical access hospital (CAH) under...

02 Aug How IMAT Solutions Meets Data-Sharing Best Practices Playbook Requirements

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AHIP, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) recently published data-sharing best practices that organizations may voluntarily adopt to support the growth of value-based care. This new data-sharing best practices playbook aims to help health payers, providers, hospitals, and other value-based care entities to overcome key challenges associated with data sharing for value-based care arrangements that persist today. Following are the key elements of this playbook, and how IMAT Solutions can help...

14 Jun The Effectiveness of AI Guidance for Health Systems is Directly Dependent on the Quality of the Data

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While there’s a current mad rush in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for the healthcare arena, health payers and health systems may want to step back and truly assess before implementing these kinds of offerings. As we have seen lately in the mainstream media, Generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, are known to generate mistakes or “hallucinations.” Just last week, a lawyer got into trouble for using ChatGPT for a court filing that...

04 May Updated CMS National Quality Strategy to Focus More on Digital Data

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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Quality Strategy focuses on promoting quality outcomes, safety, equity, and accessibility for all individuals, especially those in underserved communities. Originally launched a year ago, CMS officials recently discussed updates to the National Quality Strategy at the 2023 CMS Quality Conference. These updates include increasing the percentage of digital measures used in CMS quality programs, as well as leveraging the FHIR data standard. In particular, CMS is placing a...

15 Feb Supporting Innovative Health Data Exchange Efforts in California

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The IMAT Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Offering Enables Comprehensive Source Interoperability for Meeting 2024 Deadline Late last year, the State of California introduced its California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) Data Exchange Framework to support statewide implementation among healthcare and human services organizations. With $50 million allotted, this effort mandated the signing of a data-sharing agreement to expand the exchange of health information among health care entities, government agencies, and social service programs beginning in 2024. To date, more...

02 Feb How to Overcome Health Data Quality and Interoperability Challenges

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IMAT DaaS Solution Provides Access to Clean and Validated Data, While Enhancing Interoperability Capabilities A recent study from Health Gorilla found that poor data quality and information sharing remain a challenge to the vast majority of healthcare systems. More than 130 executive decision-makers across the healthcare ecosystem reported that 60 percent of healthcare systems had duplicative or incomplete data retrieved through health information exchanges. Sixty nine percent of digital health executives also reported gaps in their...

17 Nov States: Achieve Benchmarks in Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs

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Making healthcare more affordable for residents and employers is a critical priority for many states across the country. Thankfully, there are programs that allow states to track overall costs to better serve citizens. For example, the Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs helps participating states to identify, establish and monitor key healthcare spending trends, and track them against agreed-upon targets. This is achieved through increasing state capacity, soliciting participation from regional stakeholders, addressing cost...

08 Jun VIDEO: Centralized Data Aggregation and Quality Reporting for States

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At the 2022 Annual State HIT Connect Summit, IMAT Solutions presented with the State of Rhode Island to highlight the RI Quality Reporting System (QRS) and its implementation approach, service and technology requirements, and current status. The presentation also showcased the state’s alignment with the RI Medicaid program to support the goal of shifting to value-based payment methodologies for the Rhode Island Medicaid Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). View the full presentation on YouTube The Rhode Island Executive Office...

27 Apr CMS Bringing Digital Quality Measurement to Life

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At the recent CMS Quality Conference 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled its plan to transition to fully digital quality measures. The goal of this effort is to advance quality measurement by transitioning all quality measures used in its reporting programs to digital quality measures (dQMs). Much of this is being driven by the ONC 21st Century Cures Act final rule, which requires health information technology (IT) developers to update their certified...