IMAT Solutions Blog

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...

23 Sep Role of Data Analytics in Mitigating COVID-19 Health Disparities

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic has created a massive public health challenge on a global scale, the virus had disproportionate impact on minority and underserved communities. According to this recent Health IT Analytics article, the disproportionate impact shined a spotlight on existing clinical and non-clinical inequities – bringing new data analytics techniques to the forefront of public health. These techniques have allowed providers to deliver timely care, and helped clinicians uncover essential information to appropriately treat their...

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...

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...

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...

29 Apr IMAT Solutions Featured in KLAS COVID-19 Technology Solutions Guide

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With next-generation health IT solutions being critical for rapid COVID-19 response, KLAS has issued a its COVID-19 Technology & Services Solutions Guide to help care providers leverage the best available solutions. In the Analytics section of the report, IMAT Solutions was cited as providing “real-time analytics generated from patient information from all points of care and across the continuum.” This report came out right after IMAT announced that it is facilitating these capabilities through its platform’s Event-Based...