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09 Aug IMAT Solutions Named in Gartner® Hype Cycle for Healthcare Providers, 2023

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The Gartner Hype Cycle for Healthcare Providers, 2023 Hype Cycle tracks the benefits and maturity levels of digital innovations, market solutions and approaches for healthcare providers. It also helps CIOs communicate with stakeholders on the future direction of IT and supports decision making to identify, understand and prioritize investments. The report also highlights how data curation and enrichment capabilities are becoming critical elements of advanced analytics architectures to derive value from new data sources, improve and...

02 Aug How IMAT Solutions Meets Data-Sharing Best Practices Playbook Requirements

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AHIP, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) recently published data-sharing best practices that organizations may voluntarily adopt to support the growth of value-based care. This new data-sharing best practices playbook aims to help health payers, providers, hospitals, and other value-based care entities to overcome key challenges associated with data sharing for value-based care arrangements that persist today. Following are the key elements of this playbook, and how IMAT Solutions can help...

21 Jun MSSP ACOs: Meet 2025 Deadline for APP Quality Measures Reporting

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Now is the time for all Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (MSSP ACOs) to get prepared for the CMS-mandated 2025 deadline for reporting either eCQMs or CQMs for all patients, payers and health practices. As part of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), CMS will be sun setting the Web Interface reporting method to complete MIPS requirements in 2025. This year and through 2024, only MSSP ACOs can continue to use the CMS Web Interface...

14 Jun The Effectiveness of AI Guidance for Health Systems is Directly Dependent on the Quality of the Data

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While there’s a current mad rush in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for the healthcare arena, health payers and health systems may want to step back and truly assess before implementing these kinds of offerings. As we have seen lately in the mainstream media, Generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, are known to generate mistakes or “hallucinations.” Just last week, a lawyer got into trouble for using ChatGPT for a court filing that...

06 Apr PODCAST: Improving Readmissions and CMS Star Ratings with IMAT’s NLP Solution

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In the following IMAT Solutions podcast interview, Dr. Matt Hoffman, former Chief Medical Informatics Officer at the Utah Health Information Network (UHIN), and Strategic Consultant to IMAT Solutions, discusses dynamic use cases around how the IMAT platform improves readmissions and Star Ratings. [ai_playlist id="39147"] The IMAT Solutions platform offers the ability for healthcare organizations to leverage quality data from both structured and unstructured sources to provide true insights into all patient and population health risks. In addition, through...

22 Feb Helping Health Payers to Reimagine How They Do Business

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As with any industry sector these days, the U.S. health payer arena faces some significant challenges from unlikely players. For example, technology giant Amazon, CVS Health, Walgreens, and other retailers are becoming healthcare industry staples, and a significant competitive threat. In fact, in an effort to eliminate administrative complexities in healthcare, Amazon aims to be the first claims-free payer by 2026. In addition, many payers still rely on cumbersome legacy processes in the face of rising regulatory...

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...

08 Feb How Clinical Health Data Can Help Life Insurance Providers

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In the life insurance sector, actuaries play a critical role in leveraging statistical analysis for developing annuity and life insurance policies for individuals and groups. This involves analyzing and estimating how long someone is expected to live, based on a wide-range of factors – with the goal of minimizing the risk for the life insurance provider. When it comes to analyzing the health of a potential new policyholder, life insurance actuaries typically leveraged data from health...

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...