The Healthcare practice at Perficient continues to grow, this time by providing Service Oriented Architecture services to NASCO, a health plans solutions provider. With this solution in place, NASCO will continue to allow the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations to provide successful services to their members. From the press release which you can read here:
Perficient, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRFT), an information technology consulting firm serving Global 2000 and other large enterprise customers throughout North America, today announced it will develop new SOA-based services in partnership with NASCO, an industry-leading provider of Health Plan solutions that ensure Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations can serve their members efficiently and cost effectively. Perficient will partner with NASCO to establish an Integrated Services Program, creating a web services development, delivery and governance model. The Integrated Services Program will help NASCO drive new levels of governance, quality, reusability, security and cost effectiveness into future services developed for its customers.
NASCO provides the most efficient single-system claims processing and membership solutions for national, state, large group, small group, individual and government programs, applying more than 25 years of experience and successful service to some of the nation’s largest Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. For the Integrated Services Program, Perficient will leverage its experience from its healthcare industry practice and SOA Governance Methodology to recommend key SOA standards for NASCO’s service governance lifecycle, and throughout 2012 develop NASCO’s new web services, working with NASCO’s Service Governance and Delivery Team.
“NASCO’s core strength comes from its claims processing and membership solutions, which are unsurpassed in the market for dependability, flexibility, scalability and operational performance,” said David Hastoglis, general manager of Perficient’s National Healthcare Business Group. “The consistent management of existing services along with prescriptive guidelines for new service development is critical to meeting NASCO’s growth objectives.”
Ultimately, the Integrated Services Program will allow NASCO and its Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans to integrate using industry standards and practices which in turn support improvements in customer satisfaction, lowered costs, improved performance, and delivery of the right solution at the right time.
“NASCO chose to partner with Perficient due to its extensive expertise in the healthcare industry, SOA and services development, and in-depth experience and relationships with the Blues Plans,” said Darin McDonald, vice president and chief information officer, NASCO. “Perficient worked with us to fully understand our needs and the needs of our customers, and their insight into critical business and IT needs ensures both NASCO and the Plans benefit from this solution.”
Perficient’s award-winning team of healthcare technology and business consultants has a long history implementing complex solutions using industry-leading platforms.Perficient’s BluePrint Practice, a division of Perficient’s National Healthcare Business Group that focuses specifically on the issues facing Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations and their partners, aims to deliver innovative and intelligent solutions to meet the challenges faced by today’s health plans. The practice has consistently provided solutions and services to some of the leading BCBS organizations in the country.
We’re very excited to serve NASCO as a client and to continue our relationship with the Blues organizations. This supports the Healthcare group’s BluePrint practice, which specifically focuses on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. The Perficient team is happy to partner with NASCO to provide this SOA solution, which will help increase quality and efficiency.
If you have questions for Perficient regarding the NASCO solution or the BluePrint practice, please see us as a Silver Level sponsor at the BCBS IM Symposium, September 23-26!
