{"id":38394,"date":"2024-12-09T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/?p=38394"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:25:24","slug":"health-data-news-roundup-228","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/health-data-news-roundup-228\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Data News Roundup: California Health Data Sharing Successes; The Sequoia Project Releases Educational Toolkit; and NCQA Podcast Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Round Up 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

What California\u2019s Health Data Sharing Moves Might Mean for Rest of U.S.<\/strong><\/a>
\nFollowing a year marked by notable regulatory changes and new frameworks on health data sharing across the U.S., California has implemented<\/a> major initiatives, including the California Data Exchange Framework (DxF) and California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM).<\/p>\n

The Sequoia Project Addresses Health Data Information Sharing with Educational Toolkit<\/strong><\/a>
\nLast week, the Sequoia Project released<\/a> an informational and educational toolkit to support providers, health IT developers, health information networks and exchanges, and the greater healthcare community\u2019s commitment to compliance with the federal Information Blocking Rule (IBR).<\/p>\n

How AI-Driven Data Curation Could Advance Precision Medicine<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe data curation requirements for successful precision medicine initiatives present hurdles for healthcare stakeholders, but AI could help alleviate that burden, according to this recent Healthtech Analytics<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hospital Billing Practices Won Billions in Extra Payments, Study Finds<\/strong><\/a>
\nHospitals received billions of dollars in extra payments from insurers and government programs over a nine-year period by billing for higher-intensity care than what would be expected, according to a new Health Affairs study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NCQA: Best Practices for Measuring Health Inequities<\/strong><\/a>
\nIn last week\u2019s episode of “Podnosis” from Fierce Healthcare, Rachel Harrington, Ph.D., assistant vice president of health equity sciences at NCQA, shares insights<\/a> into the organization\u2019s efforts to measure and improve health equity.<\/p>\n

Supporting the Patient Experience During EHR Implementation<\/strong><\/a>
\nEHR implementation can improve the patient experience by consolidating multiple systems and enhancing access to personal health data through a single portal, according to this TechTarget feature story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

United Ways of California Builds New Enhanced Care Digital Referral Network (ECDRN) Aligned with State HHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Requirements<\/strong><\/a>
\nUnited Ways of California, the state network for United Ways, announced last week<\/a> that it is building a new digital client referral framework to more effectively work with community-based organizations (CBOs) employing thousands of case workers helping 11 million residents across 20 California counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the Health Data Weekly News Round Up 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. What California\u2019s Health Data Sharing Moves Might Mean…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[265],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394"}],"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=38394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38396,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38394\/revisions\/38396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}