healthcare data quality Tag

HIE trends and healthcare data priorities at Civitas 2026

15 Sep What to Watch at Civitas 2026: HIEs Take on a Bigger Role in Healthcare Transformation

Top Takeaways • HIEs are increasingly serving as critical state, regional and national healthcare infrastructure. • Data quality and standardization are becoming more important as HIEs support more sophisticated uses of healthcare data. • The focus is expanding from exchanging information to using connected data to improve care coordination and patient outcomes. • Rural Health Transformation is creating opportunities for HIEs and other organizations to build infrastructure that can support rural communities over the long term. • As the role...

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Healthcare AI ROI and AI ready healthcare data

10 Sep Healthcare Is Scaling AI. Can It Prove the ROI?

Top Takeaways • Healthcare organizations are scaling AI faster than many can consistently measure its financial impact. • Deloitte research cited by Becker’s found that 44 percent of surveyed healthcare organizations were AI “scalers,” but only 18 percent of those organizations had mature capabilities for consistently attributing AI investments to revenue growth or cost savings. • Measuring AI ROI requires reliable baselines, consistent performance data, and clear metrics for determining whether AI is actually improving outcomes. • Fragmented, incomplete,...

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Trusted healthcare data supporting Rural Health Transformation and rural healthcare organizations

02 Sep Healthcare Business Today: Why Trusted Data Will Define Rural Health Transformation

Top Takeaways • The Rural Health Transformation Program creates an opportunity for states to build healthcare data infrastructure that continues delivering value long after federal funding has been spent. • Rural healthcare depends on information moving across hospitals, clinics, specialists, pharmacies, community organizations, and other settings, making trusted and usable data essential to care coordination.  • HIEs are well positioned to play a larger role in RHTP by supporting statewide data infrastructure, analytics, quality measurement, population health,...

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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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14 Jul Congress Gives MSSP ACOs More Time. Here’s How to Use It.

Top Takeaways • The U.S. House of Representatives has passed bipartisan legislation that would extend quality reporting flexibility for MSSP ACOs through performance year 2029, recognizing that many organizations are not yet ready for fully electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) reporting. • The extension reflects ongoing challenges with EHR readiness, data quality, and interoperability rather than a delay in the industry's move toward digital quality measurement. • Organizations that use this time to strengthen data quality, standardize clinical...

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11 Jun Why Health Plans Are Shifting Focus from Data Exchange to Data Intelligence

Top Takeaways • Health plans are increasingly focused on maximizing the value of existing health IT investments. • Interoperability remains important, but organizations now need data that is trusted, usable, and actionable. • Health plans are moving from experimentation to operationalization as AI becomes embedded into workflows such as risk adjustment, claims, and utilization management. • Provider data quality challenges continue to impact operational efficiency, member experience, and reporting accuracy. • Quality, Stars, HEDIS, CAHPS, risk adjustment, and care management...

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26 May Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI Needs Quality Data; MA Transparency Overhaul; and C3HIE Live on TEFCA

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. Why Quality Data is Key to Healthcare AI Fulfilling Its...

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13 May AI Is Moving Beyond Experimentation. MSSP ACOs Need the Data Infrastructure to Keep Up.

Top Takeaways • AI is moving from experimental to operational across MSSP ACOs as organizations increasingly embed AI into clinical, quality, and care management workflows.• Real-time data infrastructure is becoming essential as ACOs shift from retrospective reporting toward continuous performance monitoring and operational decision making.• Fragmented and delayed data remains a major barrier to scalable AI adoption and value-based care success.• MSSP APP reporting is accelerating the need for trusted data as ACOs move toward full...

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27 Apr Health Data News Roundup: Half of AI Health Answers Wrong; ONC ad Behavioral Health Data Exchange; and IMAT Signs New Health Plan

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. New Study: Half of AI Health Answers Are Wrong Even...

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20 Apr Health Data News Roundup: Data and MA Star Ratings; Faster Prior Authorization Approvals; and AI Chatbot Performance

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 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings Overhaul: What It Means...

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