March 17, 2016, Orem, UT — East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN), a non-profit, joint community Health Information Exchange serving 1.6 million patients across 20 counties in East Tennessee, and IMAT Solutions, a leader in delivering innovative, real-time, healthcare data management and reporting technologies, announced today that etHIN will implement the IMAT platform to support its base of local hospitals, physicians and community healthcare providers.<\/p>\n
The IMAT Foundation Services, IMAT EMPI (enterprise master patient index), Consolidated Patient Chart, Clinical Reports, and Medical Analytics modules will facilitate full content data aggregation, normalization code mapping, analysis, and reporting from across all data stores to help etHIN deliver improved quality, efficiencies and reporting to its provider network.<\/p>\n
etHIN began looking at available data management platforms 2\u00bd years ago.\u00a0 Leigh Sterling, Executive Director of etHIN, explained, \u201cOur community\u2019s needs have been evolving over the years, driven by the ever changing use cases and Federal initiatives facing our clients, and we had already added a lot of additional technology to meet those needs.\u00a0 In looking at our community\u2019s requirements going forward, we knew that now was the time to put in a next generation platform that would be highly scalable and provide the components we could build upon.\u201d<\/p>\n
After reviewing existing capabilities, etHIN determined it needed enhancements in the following areas:<\/p>\n
etHIN conducted an extensive search and evaluation of numerous vendors during their technology selection process.\u00a0 The key criteria were:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a comprehensive requirements document that IMAT and others responded to,\u201d said Sterling.\u00a0 \u201cIMAT\u2019s scored responses, demos, and deep dive discussions with etHIN showed us that they would be able to meet all of our needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once fully implemented, which should be by June of this year, etHIN looks forward to strengthening the reporting options it offers to healthcare providers who are utilizing the etHIN network, including stronger Quality, eMeasures, HEDIS\u00ae and Star reporting, and richer, accessible data from narrative documents.<\/p>\n
Kurt Garbe, CEO of IMAT Solutions, said, \u201cAfter such a competitive and comprehensive vendor selection process, we are thrilled that etHIN has selected IMAT Solutions as their next generation, scalable platform. We look forward to working with etHIN to improve healthcare services by combining our expertise in data aggregation, normalization, code mapping and analytics with etHIN\u2019s robust client base.\u201d<\/p>\n
About East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN)<\/strong><\/p>\n etHIN is a non-profit, joint community initiative established in 2005 to serve the needs of patients and healthcare providers in East Tennessee. etHIN\u2019s purpose is to create and manage a secure healthcare information network that is used by authorized healthcare providers, supports improving patient outcomes, and helps to potentially lower the cost of healthcare. etHIN\u2019s community members, now spanning more than 20 counties, include local hospital systems, physicians, and other community healthcare providers that provide healthcare services to 1.6 million patients. To learn more about etHIN, visit: http:\/\/www.ethin.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n About IMAT Solutions <\/strong><\/p>\n IMAT Solutions was formed in 2013 to provide key innovations in data accessibility, analysis, and reporting to healthcare organizations. The product suite is HIPAA-compliant, supporting customers across eight states, processing billions of records per year for more than 2,000 facilities, involving 18 million patients and 31,000 providers. IMAT enables clients to improve care, increase efficiency and decrease cost. It also addresses the challenge of managing, normalizing and querying huge data sets in real-time, enabling users to access structured and unstructured (physician\u2019s notes, transcripts) patient information. \u00a0IMAT\u2019s modules make it a flexible solution that can be tailored to each organization\u2019s needs.\u00a0 To learn more about IMAT Solutions, visit: https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n HEDIS\u00ae is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 17, 2016, Orem, UT — East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN), a non-profit, joint community Health Information Exchange serving 1.6 million patients across 20 counties in East Tennessee, and IMAT Solutions, a leader in delivering innovative, real-time, healthcare data management and reporting technologies, announced today that etHIN will implement the IMAT platform to support its base of local hospitals, physicians and community healthcare providers. The IMAT Foundation Services, IMAT EMPI (enterprise master patient index),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[201],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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