{"id":20194,"date":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/?p=20194"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:49:57","slug":"health-data-news-roundup-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/health-data-news-roundup-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Data News Roundup: COVID-19 and Medicare Advantage Star Ratings; CHIME and National Patient Identifier Ban; and More SDOH News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

How COVID-19 Policies May Affect Medicare Advantage Star Ratings<\/a><\/strong>
\nPolicymakers are taking various approaches<\/a> to minimize negative impacts on Medicare Advantage Star Ratings stemming from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

CHIME Advises ONC to Help Lift National Patient Identifier Ban<\/a><\/strong>
\nCHIME has issued a letter<\/a> in support of a national patient identifier (NPI) to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), on the need for accurate patient matching, patient identification, and data standards.<\/p>\n

GA\u2019s Affordable Care Act Exchange Model Moves to Public Comment<\/a><\/strong>
\nCMS has confirmed<\/a> that Georgia\u2019s Section 1332 state innovation waiver, which changes the Affordable Care Act exchange model, is complete. The waiver will now move into a public comment period.<\/p>\n

How Kaiser Permanente Developed an EHR Registry Using Patient Data<\/a><\/strong>
\nEHR data collected during a patient visit can be leveraged to develop an EHR registry of patients with excessive alcohol use that can be optimized and updated in real-time, Kaiser Permanente researchers reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Teamwork Is Key to Addressing Social Determinants of Health<\/a><\/strong>
\nHealthcare organizations setting out on a social determinants of health program must rely on community partners to effectively meet patient needs.<\/a><\/p>\n

How Payers Can Leverage Centers of Excellence to Boost Quality<\/a><\/strong>
\nWhile the industry struggles to define centers of excellence, there are some key ways<\/a> that payers can identify these organizations and leverage them to improve quality of care.<\/p>\n

More Data Key to Understand AI for Sorting Patient Portal Messages<\/a><\/strong>
\nArtificial intelligence is showing promise in helping providers sort through their patient portal inboxes, but some future fixes are still needed to make the technology truly effective, according<\/a> to researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Roundup from IMAT Solutions. As the power of data continues to grow in the healthcare arena, today\u2019s 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. How COVID-19 Policies May Affect Medicare Advantage Star Ratings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[265],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194"}],"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=20194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20197,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20194\/revisions\/20197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}