Blog

Stay in touch with IMT’s latest innovations and thought leadership on data, analytics, integration, and critical industry initiatives. Search or filter by resource type, industry, or application, or read the latest from our blog.

Can A Data Fabric Improve Health Data Quality?

For more than thirty years, IMT has been a trusted collaborator, supporting organizations in navigating the complex terrain...

FHIR for Patient & Provider Master Data: Where to Focus

You know the problem all too well: healthcare data is growing exponentially, as is pressure to store and share that data....

5 Lessons for More Successful MDM Cloud Migrations

Many of our customers are in various stages of cloud adoption. Some are just starting out, while others have graduated to...

Why You Need Entity Resolution for Health System M&A Analysis

Considering a healthcare merger or acquisition? Start with one of the most important metrics: the size of the shared...

Democratize Your EHR Data with a Data Lake

Your EHR system contains a wealth of data about your patient community. This data, collected across multiple points of care...

Intelligent integration and workflows reduce delays in diagnostic test scheduling

A provider’s ability to provide patient care often depends on the timely completion of diagnostic imaging tests. Current...

Next Generation, Intelligent MDM Empowers Health Plans & Payers

For 30+ years, we have helped manage data throughout the healthcare ecosystem, working with providers and payers alike to...

New Priorities for Provider Data Management

At IMT, we’ve been helping organizations manage data across the healthcare ecosystem for more than three decades. Through...

USCDI: Expand Patient Data Sets For Better Data Exchange & Equity

For today's blog post, we offer our advice on the USDCI data element recommendations for patient data For years, we’ve...

Health Plans & Payers Need MDM for Better Operations and Analytics

An estimated 70% of provider-submitted claims have missing or incorrect data. And claims that are missing data are more...

Ready to Apply the ProjectUS@ Address Standardization Recommendations?

For today's blog post, Dwight Blubaugh, IMT Solution Architect, offers his guidance based on years of dealing with less...

IMT Is Your Trusted Data & Analytics Partner

If you haven’t been to our website in a while – we invite you to come visit – we have a fresh look and have some...

How 21st Century Cures Act and Information Blocking Rules Must Inform Your Data Management Strategy

The first phase of the Information Blocking component of 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act finally began to take effect in...

Essential Intelligent Governance and Stewardship for Healthcare Data

Data governance is more complex than ever before, and the stakes are growing — especially in healthcare. As organizations...

Unlock The Digital Front Door For True Consumer Engagement

How better patient data improves engagement and outcomes Consumer engagement is becoming a competitive must among...

Introducing IMT Health:iDM™ for Intelligent Health Data Management

Have you heard the news? We’ve just launched IMT Health:iDM, the next generation in intelligent healthcare data...

IMT Announces Compliance with SOC 2 Type 1 Standards

IMT has successfully completed the requirements for Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 1 compliance. SOC 2 is a...

Plan your Upgrade to IBM InfoSphere MDM v12

IBM recently announced general availability for IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) v12  - so what does that...

Detecting Fraudulent Unemployment Claims with Intel:ID

As the pandemic unfurled last spring, millions found themselves out of work — and turning to their states’ unemployment...

Webinar Recap: Start Planning Your Migration to AWS

Migrating to the cloud can unlock your data’s potential, enabling you to incorporate artificial intelligence, machine...

How IMT MDM Managed Services on AWS Can Optimize Your Operations

How many applications and platforms does your IT team currently support? For a midsized hospital with 20 IT staffers,...

How IMT and AWS Protect Your Data In The Cloud

It seems like every day, there’s another headline about security breaches. In Q4-2019 alone, ransomware attacks on...

4 Steps to Securely Migrate Your MDM to AWS

You know the benefits of migrating MDM to AWS, compared to the average on-prem deployment: 31% average infrastructure...

Four Things to Expect from your Healthcare Master Data Management Partner

Brian Eckhart, CEO - Part #3 of the Semarchy Guest Blog Series This third post in our three-part series on Master...

5 Reasons to Migrate MDM to AWS

These days, moving applications to the cloud is no longer an “if” — our clients increasingly tell us it’s just a...

Three Important MDM Concepts for Healthcare Data

Brian Eckhart, CEO - Part #2 of the Semarchy Guest Blog Series In our last blog post, we outlined the most strategic...

The Value of Next Generation Data Management to Strategic Healthcare Initiatives

By Brian Eckhardt - CEO of IMT As a Semarchy Partner,  IMT is applying 30 years of experience to tailor the xDM...

Interoperability in a COVID World

More than a year into the COVID pandemic, we’ve learned a lot. But many of these lessons we learned a decade...

New Year, New Initiatives to Bridge the Business-IT Divide

Over the last few years, we have explored six key ways that our clients are using EMPIs to achieve their most pressing...

Survey: 6 Ways EMPIs are Driving Transformation

In a typical year, we travel to client sites throughout the U.S. and Canada, talking to our clients about their most...

How IMT Intel:ID Helps Investigators Cut Through the Noise

By Peter Huber – IMT Practice Lead – Justice, Threat and Fraud Crime analysts can spend up to 80% of their time combing...

How to Enrich your Data in IBM MDM SE

By Vincent Tran – IMT Solution Architect After successfully implementing the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management...

Webinar Replay: Data Governance Strategies for Protecting Sensitive Data

Keeping your healthcare data safe takes extra data governance, especially now. As the healthcare master data management...

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...

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...

The Five Key MDM Metrics You Need to Track

August 19, 2020 Deanna Nole, Director - Solution Offerings/Marketing Your master data is a strategic business asset — so...

The Many Advantages of MDM on AWS

August 4, 2020John Wieler, VP of Business Development “Moving to Cloud” is becoming more and more common. Many of our...

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...

Measuring the impact of COVID-19

Globally, every organization’s focus, both private and public, has turned to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

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....

EMPIs combating COVID-19

EMPIs can contribute to combating COVID-19 COVID-19 now dominates our conversations, the news, and is creating reactions...

IMT Name:ID™ – Enhanced Name Screening

With regulatory compliance requirements and possible sanctions enforcement, it is no wonder organizations are paying more...

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...

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...

“Know Your Citizen” A Critical Foundation for eGovernment

An eGovernment strategy has become an important part of virtually every government whether it be municipal, county,...

Want to advance interoperability? Start with better patient record matching

The 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) was signed into law on December 13, 2016.  It is designed to help accelerate...

Leveraging the Personal Touch in Personal Fitness

The healthcare industry has long known about the power of an Enterprise Master Patient Index, but the broader service and...

The Buzz from THINK and HIMSS19

Interoperability, FHIR, Engagement, and AI HIMSS19 is in the rear-view mirror, but that doesn’t mean the buzz from HIMSS...

2019 Will Require Smarter Data Goals

2018 may be the year that data integration and governance went mainstream. The public is beginning to realize that their...

The Pew Report: Taking Patient Matching to the Next Level

IMT commends Pew Charitable Trusts for accelerating the patient identity record matching conversation. Their recent report,...

IBM recognizes IMT for excellence

IMT is proud to announce that we are the recipients of IBM’s 2018 Analytics Business Unit Excellence Award for Unified...

Put information together during the investigation, not after the arrest

IMT Intel:ID – Intelligence-Led Policing Entity resolution and non-obvious relationships are the most critical components...

Unexpected benefits of managing orders

In this digital age, there’s one part of healthcare that seems to be lagging behind: the Lab / Imaging Orders and...

Hiding Behind a Name…

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (Arabic: عمر فاروق عبد المطلب ); also known as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar...

It’s Time to Consider “Uptimizing” Your IBM MDM Solution

You may already know that IBM MDM v10.1 goes out of standard support in April 2018– but here’s your wake-up call. As...

Question Everything:Three new approaches to MDM optimization

If you’ve ever asked questions about MDM in the past, you might have gotten answers like these: “It’s always been done...

No Information available for selected filter.