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Priyal Patel

Priyal Patel is a healthcare industry expert, strategist and senior solutions architect for Perficient. With more than 10 years of healthcare industry experience, Priyal is a trusted advisor to C-level executives, senior managers and team members across clinical, business, and technology functions. Priyal has a proven track record of helping providers and health plans execute enterprise-level transformation to drive business, clinical, financial and operational efficiencies and outcomes.

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Unpacking Business Transformation in Healthcare and Life Sciences

In our previous article, we illuminated the significance of business transformation for life sciences and healthcare organizations (LS/HCOs). We delved into the anticipated value and pivotal roles these initiatives play in shaping a modern healthcare environment.  Today, we unpack the steps LS/HCOs can take to actualize business transformation and the inherent challenges they might grapple […]

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Navigating Agile in Healthcare

Understanding: What is Agile?  Agile is a set of principles and practices for project management and product development that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration, customer-centricity, and adaptability to change. The key principles of Agile include valuing individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working software (or deliverables) over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding […]

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Operational Hurdles in Healthcare: 4 Ways to Streamline Efficiency and Care

In the fast-paced world of healthcare, operations teams juggle various roles to ensure everything runs smoothly. While their efforts are indispensable, these teams often face hurdles that can affect patient care and services and overall efficiency. Forrester highlights that strategic operational improvements can enhance revenue, control costs, and reinforce resilience. With the industry’s ever-shifting dynamics, […]

Business Transformation in Healthcare and Life Sciences

The term “business transformation” in healthcare and life sciences signifies more than just an industry trend. It represents a comprehensive shift. Beyond the mere adoption of new technologies, it’s about strategically reimagining healthcare delivery, with an emphasis on enhancing outcomes and ensuring the sustainable success of life sciences and healthcare organizations.  What Really Lies Behind […]

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Health Disparities: Addressing Care Beyond the Four Walls

Between the global COVID-19 pandemic and the political environment, the past two years have been full of challenges. Nevertheless, every challenge brings an opportunity. In the case of the healthcare industry, that opportunity is leveraging our understanding of SDOH and finally pairing it with DE&I efforts to reduce health disparities. What Do All These Letters […]

Social Determinants of Health: Complete Data for Targeted Care

The realization that clinical care alone may not be enough to influence health outcomes has led to an increasing need to understand the impact of social and economic factor on one’s health. As healthcare organizations continue to implement technologies and strategies to bring targeted, value based care to their patients and communities, the demand to […]

Robotics in Healthcare – Beam Me Up or Be Gone?

When you hear the word “robot” like most, you probably begin thinking of a fictional, sci-fi movie – Star Wars; Short Circuit; I, Robot, etc., rarely would you think healthcare. Given the recent uptick in the use of robotics within the health sector, this could soon change. Robotics is not a foreign concept to the […]

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Meaningful Measures – Meaningful Change or Meaningless Hype?

They say the only constant is change and for the most part change is a good thing. However, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with change. I embrace the fact that it forces and challenges me to adapt which allows personal and professional growth, but I hate the disruption it causes to my […]

Predicting the Top 3 Trends at #HIMSS18

What happens in Vegas from March, 5-9, 2018, at the Venetian-Palazzo-Sands Expo Center, hopefully won’t stay in Vegas. The Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference has returned to Sin City! Roughly 45,000 health professional, from across the globe are expected to attend this year and given the current state of healthcare, we are […]

2017 Trends: Non-Traditional Data to Achieve the Triple Aim

In previous posts we have taken a look at healthcare provider trends for 2017. Our first 4 trends, Handing the Patient Portal Reins to the Patient; Connecting Patients to Connected Health; Increased Demand for Mobile Creates Connectivity Challenges; Retail Health Clinics Increase Access to Affordable Care. In our last trend, Integrating Non-Traditional data to Achieve […]

2017 Trends: Retail Health Clinics and Access to Affordable Care

Times are changing in nearly every aspect of life, and the healthcare industry is not immune to this disruption. In healthcare, one of the biggest changes is coming from patients who are demanding they have more control over their healthcare and that they receive high-quality, affordable, accessible, and personalized care. These rising expectations are a […]

Comprehensive Primary Care Plus – Value not Volume

On April 11, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) announced an initiative called the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC+). This initiative, which builds on CMS’s previous Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative, is designed to “improve the quality of care patients receive, improve patients’ health, and spend health care dollars more wisely 1” and similar […]

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