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AI Pilot to Production: 6 Barriers Preventing Payers from Scaling AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential for healthcare payers but realizing that potential hinges on one crucial factor: data readiness. In a recent webinar hosted by Emids, ‘Modernizing Data Foundations for AI: How to Accelerate Value from Legacy to Cloud’, industry leaders from Snowflake, BHI and Emids came together to explore why many payer organizations are […]

Modernizing Data Foundations for AI: How to Accelerate Value from Legacy to Cloud 

Outdated data systems can limit the potential of AI. Join Emids and industry experts to explore practical strategies for moving from legacy systems to cloud-native platforms. Learn how to strengthen your data foundation, streamline operations, and realize meaningful value from AI. Watch the webinar to see how healthcare organizations are closing the gap between strategy and execution.

Don’t Let Bad Data Sabotage Your AI Goldmine 

The successful implementation of AI in healthcare presents several key hurdles that enterprises must overcome to unlock their full potential. This is especially true for sectors like healthcare, where data security and integrity are paramount.  Enterprises face a few primary hurdles when embarking on AI initiatives, which can include securing buy-in and willingness to invest […]

Payers: Is Your Data Ready for AI? 

Payers are handling massive volumes of data, but few are truly prepared to harness its power for AI transformation. This eBook offers a comprehensive look into how payer organizations are navigating the challenges of AI adoption and what it takes to establish a strong data foundation. Unlock expert insights from Emids and start building a trusted foundation for AI in your organization.

Unlocking Interoperability: Navigating CMS Mandates, FHIR Standards & Implementation Challenges

Interoperability is no longer just a compliance requirement—it’s a strategic necessity for payers looking to streamline operations, enhance data sharing, and improve patient outcomes. With CMS regulations evolving and FHIR becoming the backbone of healthcare data exchange, payers must navigate a complex landscape of mandates, standards, and implementation challenges.

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The Building Mountain of Wearables Data

From counting steps to remote monitoring, how we deal with the building mountain of wearable data will determine the future of consumer acceptance. Wearable electronic health and fitness devices are in strong demand with 26 percent of U.S. households owning one as of 2018, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).  They projected over 12.5 […]

Understanding the Language of Healthcare Data

The Healthcare Data Language Crisis Healthcare organizations have been capturing, collecting, transforming, accessing, analyzing, securing, and storing large amounts of data for many years, and yet there is still doubt in trusting and/or understanding their data and how to utilize it. For many healthcare organizations, data is still a vast, field of information and definitions, […]

Why Legacy System Integration is Necessary for Health Apps

Digital Health Funding is Driving Transformation If you look around, almost all industries have significantly digitized their customer touch points, but healthcare has been slow in catching up. Until the pandemic that is. The pandemic opened the eyes of many large health systems, health plans and even the investor community to recognize the need to […]

Top 3 Healthcare Data Challenges from Industry Leaders

Thanks to the digital economy, data is now the new gold. In the healthcare and life sciences industries, data is improving the lives of patients and making it efficient for providers to deliver care in novel ways. A deluge of data, however, comes with its own set of challenges. To get a better understanding of […]

The Role of Data & Analytics in Digital Transformation

What if you overheard a health plan CIO give this command: “Alexa, over the last three months, which New York providers received the most payment for treatment of out-of-state patients with chronic conditions?” Ridiculous, right? After all, Alexa is merely a voice-activated assistant, not a miracle worker. But maybe it’s not so ridiculous. Maybe the […]

Data Governance, Data Liquidity and the Data Chain of Trust

How the right data governance model can help healthcare organizations meet the demands of digital transformation By Randy Thomas, FHIMSS Senior Director, Value-based Consulting Value-based care. Population health management. Digital health. Healthcare consumerism. Promoting interoperability. All these evolving healthcare opportunities require consistent, accurate, reliable data. While the quantity of data created in healthcare continues to […]