data governance Tag

AI-ready healthcare data supporting better AI, clinical workflows, analytics, and decision making

19 Aug AI Shouldn’t Automate Healthcare’s Data Problems

Top Takeaways • AI can accelerate healthcare workflows, but it can also magnify longstanding problems with fragmented data, redundant processes, and inconsistent information. • Healthcare organizations should evaluate the data and workflows behind a process before using AI to automate it.• AI-ready healthcare data must be complete, standardized, normalized, and usable across systems and applications.• A trusted enterprise data foundation can support AI while also improving quality reporting, analytics, population health, and other healthcare priorities.• AI implementation...

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Health Data News Roundup covering healthcare AI governance, rural health AI, data usability, and value-based care

17 Aug Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI Governance Lags; Rural Health AI Questions; and Data Usability Challenges

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights the growing gap between AI adoption and the data, governance, and workflows needed to support it. From AI readiness and rural healthcare to data usability, value-based care, and the practical approaches being taken by community health systems, healthcare leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring new technologies deliver measurable value for organizations and patients. Healthcare AI Adoption Outpaces Data and...

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Healthcare data usability supporting AI, analytics, quality reporting, and digital transformation

12 Aug Healthcare Doesn’t Have a Data Shortage. It Has a Data Usability Problem

Top Takeaways • Healthcare organizations have access to enormous volumes of data, but much of it still requires significant work before it can support clinical, operational, and strategic decisions.  • Interoperability has improved access to healthcare data, but exchanging information does not automatically make it standardized, trusted, or usable. • Poor data usability creates hidden operational costs through manual reconciliation, duplicate processes, fragmented reporting, and repeated data preparation. • A trusted enterprise data foundation can allow the same...

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Health Data News Roundup covering AI infrastructure, Rural Health Transformation, data readiness, and EHR interoperability

10 Aug Health Data News Roundup: Payers Need AI Infrastructure; Rural Providers and RHTP Funding; and Data Readiness

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights the infrastructure and data foundations needed to turn healthcare innovation into meaningful results. From payer investments in AI and the future of Rural Health Transformation to data readiness and standardized EHR exchange, healthcare organizations are increasingly focused on building the trusted data environments needed to improve efficiency, strengthen decision making, and support better care. Healthcare Payers Need AI Infrastructure,...

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Mark Coetzer discusses how the Rural Health Transformation Program is helping HIEs build trusted healthcare data for interoperability, AI, and quality reporting.

29 Jul Q&A: Rural Health Transformation Starts with Trusted Data

Conversation with Mark Coetzer, VP of Business Development at IMAT Solutions Top Takeaways • The Rural Health Transformation Program is about building sustainable healthcare infrastructure, not simply distributing funding. • Health information exchanges have an opportunity to become the trusted data foundation supporting statewide healthcare transformation. • High-quality, standardized healthcare data is essential for AI, quality reporting, population health, and value-based care. • Organizations that strengthen data governance today will be better positioned to maximize Rural Health Transformation investments tomorrow.  The...

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13 Jul Health Data News Roundup: Health AI Accountability; Health Data More Than Technical Asset; and IMAT Partners with Firely

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights how healthcare organizations are strengthening governance, accountability, and collaboration as digital transformation continues to accelerate. From AI oversight and data governance to interoperability, consent management, and digital quality measurement, healthcare leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring that healthcare data is trusted, secure, and ready to support better decisions and better outcomes. AI Accountability is Now Healthcare's Next Big Challenge As...

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01 Jun Health Data News Roundup: AI with Dwarf Every Health IT Shift; Health Plan Trends; and Ken Barbe New IMAT CEO

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions.This week's healthcare data trends highlight the growing importance of AI infrastructure, interoperability, payer transformation, and trusted data foundations as healthcare organizations prepare for an increasingly digital future. Beyond the EHR: Why One CIO Believes AI Will Dwarf Every Prior Health IT Shift Healthcare leaders should view artificial intelligence as a transformational shift that will extend far beyond traditional electronic health record (EHR) systems and health systems...

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11 May Health Data News Roundup: AI Infrastructure Problems; AI and HIEs; and NAACOS Focus on AI for ACOs

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. AI Won’t Fix Healthcare Until We Fix the Infrastructure Most health...

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23 Feb Health Data News Roundup: AI Adoption Outpacing Strategy; AI Patient Communications Standard; and Medicare Advantage Enrollment

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. AI Is Everywhere in Healthcare. But No One Agrees...

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07 Jan Healthcare IT Today: How Do I Know if My Health Data Is Bad?

Healthcare organizations often assume their data is reliable until something breaks. In a recent Healthcare IT Today guest article, Mark Coetzer, VP of Business Development at IMAT Solutions, explains why poor data quality often goes undetected, how it quietly undermines analytics and AI initiatives, and why a formal health data quality assessment is becoming a critical first step for healthcare leaders. Data is at the center of nearly every healthcare priority today, from quality improvement and...

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