May 27 IMAT Solutions Names Ken Barbe Chief Executive Officer

 

Veteran healthcare technology and services leader to guide next phase of growth across HIEs, payers, and care systems.

 

May 27, 2026, Pleasant Grove, UTIMAT Solutions, a leader in healthcare data acquisition, normalization, interoperability, and quality reporting, today announced the appointment of Ken Barbe as Chief Executive Officer. Barbe previously served as Vice President of Professional Services and Security Officer for the company.

 

Barbe brings more than 30 years of experience leading healthcare technology delivery, professional services, operational modernization, and business transformation initiatives across complex healthcare environments.

 

Throughout his career, he has helped organizations improve operational performance, scale technology platforms, and navigate increasingly data driven healthcare ecosystems.

 

As CEO, Barbe will focus on accelerating IMAT Solutions’ growth across HIEs, payers, and care systems as healthcare organizations continue to face growing demands around interoperability, digital quality measurement, AI readiness, and trusted healthcare data infrastructure.

 

“Healthcare organizations are under tremendous pressure to operationalize data more effectively across quality reporting, interoperability, population health, and AI initiatives,” said Ken Barbe, CEO of IMAT Solutions. “IMAT is uniquely positioned to help organizations build trusted, scalable, and operationally ready data foundations that support better outcomes, stronger performance, and more connected healthcare ecosystems.”

 

Barbe has played a key leadership role in the continued expansion of IMAT Intelligence, the company’s SaaS based Health Data Intelligence Platform, helping healthcare organizations aggregate, normalize, validate, and operationalize healthcare data across fragmented clinical and claims environments.

 

Under Barbe’s leadership, IMAT Solutions plans to continue expanding its support for organizations preparing for HEDIS 2030, CMS interoperability initiatives, MSSP APP reporting, payer data modernization, and AI driven healthcare operations.

 

About IMAT Solutions

IMAT Solutions are experts in health data acquisition and normalization, supporting programs for HEDIS, STARS, Population Health Management, Data Aggregator Validation (DAV), 21st Century Cures Act and CMS Interoperability. The company offers turnkey, end-to-end services — from data source onboarding to data normalization validation to data quality management to reporting and beyond. IMAT Solutions was founded in 2013 to provide key innovations in data accessibility, analysis, and reporting to healthcare organizations. The product suite is HIPAA-compliant, supporting customers across multiple states, processing billions of records per year for more than 3,500 facilities, involving 30 million patients and 35,000 providers. To learn more about IMAT Solutions, visit: https://imatsolutions.com