healthcare interoperability 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 integration, HIE infrastructure and rural health transformation news

14 Sep Health Data News Roundup: Healthcare AI Faces Its Next Test; HIEs Take Center Stage; and Rural Health Investment Expands

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news looks at what it will take to turn technology and funding into meaningful improvements in care. From growing scrutiny of healthcare AI and the challenge of integrating it into existing workflows to the expanding role of HIEs and new investments in rural healthcare, organizations are increasingly focused on building the infrastructure needed to support long term transformation. Healthcare Leaders Warn...

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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 AI transparency, rural health transformation, interoperability and health data news

31 Aug Health Data News Roundup: Americans Want AI Transparency; Some Hospitals Not Using RHTP Funding, Interop Challenges

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news explores the growing expectations surrounding AI, interoperability, and the ability to turn healthcare data into action. From calls for greater AI transparency and questions about physician productivity to rural health funding challenges and the next phase of interoperability, healthcare organizations are navigating how technology, data, and people come together to deliver meaningful results. Why Are Some Rural Hospitals Saying No...

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IMAT Solutions showcasing HIE data quality and the Health Data Quality Assessment at Civitas 2026

26 Aug IMAT to Showcase Health Data Quality for HIEs at Civitas 2026

Top Takeaways • IMAT Solutions will be a Silver Sponsor of the 2026 Civitas Annual Conference, September 22–24 in Arlington, Virginia.• HIEs have an opportunity to expand their role beyond data exchange by providing trusted data infrastructure for population health, quality reporting, analytics, AI, value-based care, and statewide healthcare initiatives.• Expanding those services requires HIEs to understand the quality, completeness, consistency, and usability of the data moving through their networks.• The IMAT Health Data Quality Assessment...

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Health Data News Roundup covering healthcare AI readiness, ACO technology, payer modernization, and health data sharing

24 Aug Health Data News Roundup: AI Should Not Automate Data Problems; MA Plan Dissatisfaction; and AI Governance

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights how organizations are strengthening the foundations needed to support AI, value-based care, and more connected healthcare. From AI-ready data and payer modernization to ACO technology readiness, automated consent, and AI governance, healthcare leaders are confronting the data and operational challenges that can determine whether new technologies deliver meaningful results. AI Shouldn’t Automate Healthcare’s Data Problems Healthcare organizations should address fragmented...

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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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Health Data News Roundup featuring USCDI Version 7, Rural Health Transformation, AI, and payer collaboration

03 Aug Health Data News Roundup: ONC Releases USCDI Version 7; States Address Rural Health Transformation; and Payers and Admin Complexity

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. This week's healthcare data news highlights how healthcare organizations are laying the foundation for the next generation of interoperability, AI, and value-based care. From new national data standards and Rural Health Transformation initiatives to payer collaboration and administrative simplification, healthcare leaders are increasingly recognizing that trusted, standardized data is essential for improving efficiency, supporting better decisions, and delivering higher-quality care ONC Releases USCDI Version 7...

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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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