Webinar Replay: Data Governance Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Data

Last week, Data Sentinel co-founders Mark Rowan and Kevin Downey joined IMT’s Corrine Blair for a short webinar to explore data governance strategies for sensitive data handling.


4 Ways “Single EHR” Strategies Couldn’t Stand Up to COVID-19  

Last time, we looked at how an enterprise master patient index (EMPI) can overcome the limits of an enterprise EHR. These limitations have become even more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic.   COVID hit …


How Next Generation MDM Can Overcome the Limits of Enterprise EHRs

We hear more and more organizations moving towards a “single EHR” strategy. The logic makes sense. After all, sticking to a single vendor’s tools should help centralize your data so you can create a trusted single view of your patients’ healthcare history. 

But, in practice, it’s not that simple.


The Many Advantages of MDM on AWS

Many of our MDM customers have or are considering a move to Cloud for reasons like enhanced security, cost containment, and skill focus.


Key Points from the ONC Patient Identification & Matching Working Group

On June 1st, IMT’s Corinne Blair (Healthcare Practice Lead) and Deanna Nole (Solution Offerings Director) attended the day long ONC Patient Matching and Identification Working Group session.  This was a marathon session of almost 30 presentations from healthcare providers, policy folks and …


Measuring the impact of COVID-19

Globally, every organization’s focus, both private and public, has turned to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. Providers of healthcare services, federal governments, and state/provincial health and human services organizations have …


New Decade, New Initiatives: 4 Ways Your EMPI Enables Transformation

This new decade is full of big initiatives, which is probably why our first 2020 webcast drew lots of engaged participants. (You can watch the recording here.) We discussed the …


EMPIs combating COVID-19

EMPIs can contribute to combating COVID-19 COVID-19 now dominates our conversations, the news, and is creating reactions ranging from panic to eyerolls.  In recent days it has also brought our …


The Next Decade – EMPI as a Strategic Asset

Spirited conversations exploring new frontiers and compelling new uses for the EMPI were abundant in the recent IMT event “The Next Decade, EMPI as a Strategic Asset” held in Orlando …


2020 and the Future of Healthcare Data

The Year 2020… It’s always seemed to be some distant, far-off time – somewhere in the FUTURE. Futurists predicted that technology would become essential to our lives, that information would …