IMAT Solutions Blog

25 Jul Health Data News Roundup: Medicare Advantage Plans High Enrollment; New TEFCA Flow-Down Resource; and USCDI v3 Released

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. Medicare Advantage Plans See High Enrollment, Low Spending in...

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20 Jul IMAT DaaS Platform: Improving the Usability and Quality of Clinical Data for Payers

Last month, IMAT Solutions announced the launch of its new Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering for health payers. As a one-stop-shop offering of technology and proven services, the new DaaS solution enhances usability and quality of the clinical data for payers. It also improves overall HEDIS reporting capabilities and Star ratings. In addition to improving overall clinical data quality, the IMAT DaaS solution helps payers to eliminate the burden of chart chasing, prioritize member outreach, improve risk adherence, and...

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05 Jul Health Data News Roundup: Medicare Needs Increased Interoperability; Payers Addressing Health Equity; and Healthcare CFO Fears

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. Medicare Needs Increased Interoperability for MA Data Exchange With MA...

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22 Jun What is Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Health Payers?

There is an emerging trend in data management for health payers called Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), which uses the cloud to deliver data storage, integration, processing, and/or analytics services via a network connection. For health payers, DaaS provides an opportunity to meet emerging CMS digital quality measures (dQMs), new FHIR standards, as well as enhance overall HEDIS reporting capabilities. With the goal of providing access to actionable, clean and validated data, DaaS allows health payers to gain optimal results...

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16 May Health Data News Roundup: Health Insurance and the Great Resignation; HIA Interoperability Report; and UnitedHealth Most Profitable Payer

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. Role of Health Insurance Coverage, Benefits in Great Resignation As...

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13 May IMAT Solutions: Comprehensive and Efficient Patient and Record Matching

IMAT Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) Module Offers Deterministic and Probabilistic Matching Effective patient matching is a critical part of providing the best quality of care, and determines whether records correctly refer to a specific individual. However, as highlighted by this Pew Research Center study, patient matching rates vary widely, with health care facilities failing to link records for the same patient as often as half the time. When patient matching does not work, it can lead...

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02 May Health Data News Roundup: CMS Bringing Digital Quality Measurement to Life; BCBSA and Health Equity; and Humana and SDOH

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. CMS Bringing Digital Quality Measurement to Life At the recent...

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23 Mar What is Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) for Health Payers?

Last August, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) announced the launch of its Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program, which is geared towards ensuring the validity of clinical data used for quality reporting and other initiatives. The program enables more data and more data sources to be trusted, useful, and comparable, resulting in decreased burden, more streamlined processes between healthcare segments and improved care quality. Essentially NCQA's Data Aggregator Validation program evaluates the ingestion, transformation and output...

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21 Mar Health Data News Roundup: Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange Rule; Consumer-Directed Health Plans Broke Down Barriers; and Anthem Unveils Corporate Rebrand

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-to-Payer Data Exchange Rule to be Published 'Soon,' CMS...

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09 Mar Health Payers: Before and After Data Aggregator Validation (DAV)

For health payers, the need for data aggregation is coming more into the forefront. In fact, health data vendors that have achieved the Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program designation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) are completely changing the health data landscape for payers. For example, IMAT Solutions is the first, and currently only, technology company to achieve full DAV designation from NCQA. “NCQA’s Data Aggregator Validation program helps identify clinical data that can...

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