Archive for October, 2011

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Healthcare decision makers are being called upon to reduce waste, improve operational processes, […]

Last weekend, I virtually attended BlizzCon 2011, a conference hosted by Blizzard Entertainment, the game developer behind Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo. A major focus of this annual conference is to provide insights and generate excitement about upcoming content planned for each franchise, but it is also a celebration of gamers, by gamers, and for gamers. […]

With the release of the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rule, healthcare providers must be able to identify, access and seamlessly share patient information to drive efficiencies and enjoy a potential share in ACO program incentives. Additionally, more than half of the 93 draft National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) ACO measures are also Meaningful Use […]

Scott Laningham (@ScottLaningham) and Todd Watson (@TurboTodd) of IBM’s DeveloperWorks podcasts series interviewed our IBM business intelligence lead, Andy Ho, while at IBM’s Information On Demand 2011 conference this week in Las Vegas. As usual, Scott and Todd identified key insights from Andy’s experience working with clients in information management every day, but not without […]

Perficient has been honored with two awards at Information On Demand 2011 this week. The Information Management Solution Excellence Award We created a solution for Premier, Inc., a healthcare performance improvement alliance, that leverages several IBM technologies to deliver critical information and KPIs for patients, physicians and more. Read more about this honor at our […]

The Quandary I’ve literally written a ton of VBA code over the years to “enhance” my end user’s experience. For example, I’ve often slapped a button on a worksheet or toolbar and used the E_PICK to pop-up a dimension subset editor allowing a selection of particular element and then using that selection to drive changes […]

A successful Enterprise HIE must be secure, accurate, dependable, appropriate and responsive to the need of the users of this clinical information to ensure that appropriate care is delivered. Enterprise HIE is driven by true healthcare needs. These key drivers include: Ensuring appropriate care is given at the correct time Promoting preventive medicine Avoiding inaccurate […]

Earlier this month, Associate Software Engineer Mike Behnke and I  attended the 2011 jQuery conference in Boston. We joined 600 other jQuery/JavaScript enthusiasts for the largest jQuery conference to date. It was a great weekend filled with all things jQuery, meeting members of their team, and generally mingling with other software engineers who share a […]

Microsoft ships SharePoint with a lot of out-of-the-box features.  However, no out-of-the-box portal is going to give you everything you want out-of-the-box.   So at some point in your implementation of SharePoint you are going to need to do some custom development.  Have you thought about your development strategies for SharePoint? If not, Forrester has […]

After being pelted with all of the news of the Apple iPhone 4s, Androidians™ finally have a reason to smile. Google debuted Android 4.0 (“Ice Cream Sandwich”) last week at the rollout of the Samsung  Galaxy Nexus in Hong Kong. Android 4 is the first unified version for tablets and smart phones. Android smartphone developers […]

It’s always a pleasure being nominated, but winning is even more fun, isn’t it? I’m happy to say that today Perficient was named the sole recipient of IBM’s 2011 Information Management Solution Excellence Award. We were also the sole recipient of IBM’s 2011 Business Analytics Solution Provider Achievement Award. That’s two times the fun! The […]