IMAT Solutions Blog

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

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...

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17 Jun Bridging the Social Determinants of Health Gap Between Payers and Providers

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...

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10 Jun Role of Health Data Analytics in Post COVID-19 World

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...

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27 May Did You Know that the IMAT Platform Brings More Meaning to Data Through Natural Language Processing?

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...

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

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...

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08 Apr IMAT Virtual Health Record Offers a 360-Degree View of Patients Across the Full Continuum of Care

As care organizations seek more flexibility for optimizing the use of health data, many are turning to the use of the IMAT Virtual Health Record. Taking advantage of IMAT's flexible data platform, the IMAT Virtual Health Record allows you to rapidly incorporate new and diverse data in the longitudinal patient view – offering a 360-degree view of the patient across the full continuum of care. IMAT Solutions offers a Provider Portal through the Virtual Health Record (VHR)...

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01 Apr IMAT Solutions Helping Customers to Identify Patients at Risk of COVID-19

Last week, IMAT Solutions announced that it is enabling real-time health data reporting and analytics for its customers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to facilitating these capabilities through the IMAT platform’s Event-Based Reporting, Population Risk Surveillance, and Alerts/Notifications, the company is helping customers to identify patients who may be at risk of COVID-19, through the creation of profiles based on centralized clinical codes and other clinical data. “One of the challenges of this pandemic...

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10 Mar Did You Know You Can Have Clean, Current and Complete Data with the IMAT Platform?

For hospitals and clinics, accessing and leveraging data for all care, reporting, financial, and compliance efforts can be challenging. Often the reason comes down to health data not being fully comprehensive, clean or current. Untimely, incomplete and inaccurate data leads to a lack of data confidence, and makes it nearly impossible to make sound decisions. Did you know that the IMAT C3 Framework can help you tackle these challenges by ensuring that all data is Clean (C1),...

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18 Feb Health Data News Roundup: Payer Consumerism and Data; Cigna Strategic Partnerships; and Patient Matching Issues

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. Payer Consumerism Strategies Rely on Data, SDOH, Simpler Language Data sharing,...

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31 Dec Top 10 Health Data Management Predictions for 2020

With a new decade officially upon us, there will be a tremendous amount of changes when it comes to care organizations leveraging health data management solutions for enhanced operations and providing optimal care outcomes in the coming year. A couple of weeks ago, we looked back at the Top 10 IMAT payer-related blog posts of 2019, and now’s the time to be future-focused. Based on IMAT’s work with customers and partners, as well as what we...

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