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Rural communities are the backbone of American health care, but they face real challenges with access, workforce, and digital connectivity. To address these gaps, CMS created the Rural Health Transformation Program, a 50-billion-dollar investment over five years. This is one of the largest commitments ever made to rural health and it gives states the chance…

Kansas City, MO – August 2025 KONZA Health, a national nonprofit Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN), made a strong impression at this year’s eSolutions Xchange (ESX) 2025 Conference, highlighting its mission-driven role in helping payers and providers meet interoperability, quality, and compliance goals. Elevating Quality Reporting with QMOE At ESX, KONZA Health and its long-standing…

Every patient encounter, every quality score, and every care decision depends on one thing: the accuracy of the data behind it. That’s why KONZA Health is launching Cohort 10 of the NCQA Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) program — a national certification that confirms whether clinical data is complete, trustworthy, and ready to use for quality…

By Melissa Talley, BSN, MBA, Director of Quality Clinical Services  In healthcare, data is more than just numbers—it’s the foundation of patient care, operational efficiency, and better outcomes. For healthcare providers, payers, and public health organizations, the ability to trust and rely on health data is critical. At KONZA Health, we know that ensuring data…

By Rhonda Spellmeier MBA, BSN, RN, HIE Workflow Specialist Quality is the bedrock of healthcare. Everyone, including clinicians, administrators, payers, and patients wants to ensure the care being provided is appropriate, effective, and efficient. With the explosion of electronic health record implementations in the last fifteen years, quality is still at the forefront of our…

By Melissa Talley, BSN, MBA, Director of Quality Clinical Services Data quality is one of the most intractable problems that affects all users of healthcare information. Providers need confidence in data from third-party systems to make clinical decisions. Patients need to know their data will move smoothly and accurately across systems. And Payers need to trust that data is…

By Amber Epperson, Data Quality Specialist Data integrity and accuracy are paramount in healthcare. KONZA Health is at the forefront of these efforts, with the largest number of facilities in the nation that have achieved NCQA Data Aggregator Validation (DAV) accreditation. But what exactly is NCQA DAV accreditation, and why is it so valuable for…

By Chris Guerrero, Director of Public Health Services The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and KONZA Health were selected to present “MDRO RapidAlerts Pilot: Utilizing State Health Information Exchange for Automated, Real-Time MDRO Admission Alerts” at the annual Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conference, held June 10-13 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The CSTE…