Information Management
The Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) has been deeply rooted in health care data management and research as well as systems development since our inception in 1972. IFMC’s experience in collecting, storing, safeguarding and mining data is unparalleled in the health care industry.
Using state-of-the-art technologies and a unique team of experts, Iowa Foundation for Medical Care (IFMC) Information Systems (IS) delivers advanced solutions in:
- Health Data Management
- Health Research and Policy Analysis
- Information Technology (IT) Systems Development
IFMC serves as a trusted and valued information systems contractor providing large-scale health management systems that meet and/or exceed the customer target enterprise architecture and security standards. Our innovative, cost-effective, and flexible style has won the company business with diverse customers in local, state, and federal governments as well as in the private sector.
Practicing clinicians, sociologists, statisticians, epidemiologists, data management professionals, and academic institutions with pharmacy and medical experts all come together at IFMC to further their committed to improving health care through our services.
Health Data Management
Employing the strictest security standards, IFMC offers expertise in:
- Data Capture
- Data Warehousing
- Data Analysis and Reporting
As a major CMS data-warehousing contractor, IFMC has developed the rigor associated with:
- Data cleansing
- Cross-linking data across the entire health care spectrum
- Data registry management
- De-identification and securing patient information
IFMC’s years of experience handling billions of records, designing massive databases to manage health care data, extracting data for public reporting and its unique Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) role, has evolved into the nation’s safekeeper of health care data.
Today, IFMC has nearly 4 billion records successfully managed within our systems – a number that grows daily. To that end, IFMC was recognized by CMS with the prestigious eGov award for its exceptional data encryption implementation deployed with the QnetExchange.org website.
In addition to data warehousing, IFMC currently supports many other major data management projects for CMS and the Department of Defense (DoD), among others.
Health Research and Policy Analysis
As a research and policy analysis organization, IFMC has in-house expertise, as well as the unique ability to assemble clinical experts to ensure topics are relevant and examined in a meaningful way. IFMC’s team of professionals is exceptionally qualified to conduct analytic studies designed to bring better understanding of issues facing the health care industry. Our staff is skilled at correlating and applying the extensive algorithms necessary to handle large volumes of patient claims and clinical data necessary to support intensive statistical research. IFMC plays a central role for many of the nation’s health care policy initiatives facing public and private constituents through our wide variety of innovative research projects.
Information Technology (IT) Systems Development
Designing, developing and implementing software/web applications capable of supporting thousands of simultaneous users is a competency in which IFMC consistently excels. In addition, IFMC manages the hardware, network and infrastructure for every QIO in the country.
Many products and services such as CART, SDPS contract, QnetExchange, MedQIC, MDS/OASIS and License Tracking have enjoyed multiple iterations of successful deployments spread across ambulatory care, nursing home, home health agencies, QIOs, and acute care settings.
One of IFMC’s latest CMS projects is acting as the lead IS contractor on the Vista-Office EHR project.
For more information about IFMC’s Information Management services, contact us at information@ifmc.org or visit www.IFMCis.org.