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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

14 Oct Update on Key Health Payer Quality Measures for 2020

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In late September, the Core Quality Measure Collaborative (CQMC) released four new quality measure sets for 2020 with the goal of identifying key quality performance indicators that health plans can use for their advanced payment models, while also diminishing the burden on providers. CQMC is a partnership alliance between America’s Health Insurance Plans, CMS, and the National Quality Forum (NQF) that establishes quality measures to promote patient-centered value-based care. “Data and accurate information are a critical lever...

07 Oct Social Informatics: Meeting Social Determinants of Health Needs

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According to a recent JAMA study, social informatics could be the answer to some of healthcare’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data problems. Social informatics is a burgeoning field that allows providers to leverage SDOH data to best provide care for patients. As highlighted in this recent EHR Intelligence article, the field of social informatics is coming into the forefront for its ability to overcome the deeper data analytic and interoperability challenges for bringing SDOH efforts...