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02 Feb How to Overcome Health Data Quality and Interoperability Challenges

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...

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

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...

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19 Oct Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Declined for 2023

Enhance Star Ratings with the IMAT Flexible Payer Solution With the goal of providing consumers a way to compare health plans, the Medicare Advantage Star Ratings measure the quality of health and drug services received by individuals enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans. Earlier this month, CMS released its 2023 Medicare Advantage and Part D Star Ratings, which found an overall decline in ratings when compared to 2022. In fact, 57 contracts earned five...

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

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...

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27 Apr CMS Bringing Digital Quality Measurement to Life

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...

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14 Mar IMAT Solutions Cited in Gartner Report, “U.S. Healthcare Payer CIOs Should Avoid Data Lake Mistakes with Clinical Data Integration”

IMAT Solutions was recently included in a Gartner report: “U.S. Healthcare Payer CIOs Should Avoid Data Lake Mistakes with Clinical Data Integration.” The report provides insights into how: “payer CIOs want to know whether data lakes can deliver quick wins for business leaders hungry to derive actionable insights from unstructured and nonstandard clinical data. To avoid drowning in data, CIOs must first specify goals and critically compare internal capabilities to vendor solutions.” IMAT Solutions allows payers to...

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02 Nov Black Book Poll: Health Payer Executives Seek Enhanced Data Analytics

As highlighted in a new Black Book poll, healthcare organizations are looking to improve the quality of their data assets by actively seeking ways to leverage data for clinical analytics and population health management. Specifically, 93 percent of hospital and physician financial executives believe it is critical to explore new ways to use data analytics to support value-based reimbursement and meet the demands of consumerism. The study points to how clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs play a...

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25 Oct Gaining Confidence in Health Data in 2019

According to a recent survey by the Healthcare Executive Group (HCEG), leveraging clinical data to manage health and drive individual, provider and payer decisions is a top challenge for healthcare executive leaders in 2019. This news reinforces how today’s healthcare organizations are striving to have true confidence in their data, but often fall short. Health data that is not comprehensive, clean or current tend to be the biggest roadblocks to long-term data confidence. Untimely, incomplete and inaccurate...

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17 Sep Hurricane Florence Evacuation Response: IMAT Solutions Helps etHIN to Retrieve Medical Records for North Carolina Residents

When it looked like Hurricane Florence was going to make a direct hit to the Carolinas, the East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) worked with IMAT Solutions to enable an eHealth Exchange connection with North Carolina in preparation of the storm. This allowed providers in East Tennessee to retrieve medical records for North Carolina residents who were seeking care after evacuation. While patients were already in the midst of being migrated away from the Carolinas to neighboring...

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16 Mar East Tennessee Health Information Network Selects IMAT Solutions for Big Data Management after Extensive, Multi-year Search

March 17, 2016, Orem, UT -- East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN), a non-profit, joint community Health Information Exchange serving 1.6 million patients across 20 counties in East Tennessee, and IMAT Solutions, a leader in delivering innovative, real-time, healthcare data management and reporting technologies, announced today that etHIN will implement the IMAT platform to support its base of local hospitals, physicians and community healthcare providers. The IMAT Foundation Services, IMAT EMPI (enterprise master patient index), Consolidated...

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