Perficient is proud to announce that we have earned the Databricks Brickbuilder Specialization for Healthcare & Life Sciences, a distinction awarded to select partners who consistently demonstrate excellence in using the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to solve the industry’s most complex data challenges.
This specialization reflects both our strategic commitment to advancing health innovation through data and AI, and our proven track record of helping clients modernize with speed, responsibility, and measurable outcomes.
Our combined expertise in Healthcare & Life Sciences and the Databricks platform uniquely positions us to help customers achieve meaningful impact, whether improving patient outcomes or accelerating the clinical data review process. This specialization underscores the strength of our capabilities across both the platform and within this highly complex industry. – Nick Passero, Director Data and Analytics
How We Earned the Specialization
Achieving the Databricks Brickbuilder Specialization requires a deep and sustained investment in technical expertise, customer delivery, and industry innovation.
Technical Expertise: Perficient met Databricks’ stringent certification thresholds, ensuring that dozens of our data engineers, architects, and AI practitioners maintain active Pro and Associate certifications across key domains. This level of technical enablement ensures that our teams not only understand the Databricks platform, but can apply it to clinical trials, healthcare claims management, and real world evidence, leading to AI-driven decisioning.
Delivery Excellence: Equally important, we demonstrated consistent success delivering in production healthcare and life sciences use cases. From enhancing omnichannel member services to migrating complex Hadoop workloads to Databricks for a large midwest payer, building a modern lakehouse on Azure for a leading children’s research hospital, and modernizing enterprise data architecture with Lakehouse and DataOps for a national payer, our client work demonstrates both scale and repeatability.
Thought Leadership: Our achievement also reflects ongoing thought leadership, another core requirement of Databricks’ specialization framework. Perficient continues to publish research-driven perspectives (Agentic AI Closed-Loop Systems for N-of-1 Treatment Optimization, and Agentic AI for RealTime Pharmacovigilance) that help executives navigate the evolving interplay of AI, regulatory compliance, clinical innovation, and operational modernization across the industry.
Why This Matter to You
Healthcare and life sciences organizations face unprecedented complexity as they seek to unify and activate data from sensitive datasets (EMR/EHR, imaging, genomics, clinical trial data). Leaders must make decisions that balance innovation with security, scale with precision, and AI-driven speed with regulatory responsibility.
The Databricks specialization matters because it signals that Perficient has both the technical foundation and the industry expertise to guide organizations through this transformation. Whether the goal is to accelerate drug discovery, reduce clinical trial timelines, personalize therapeutic interventions, or surface real-time operational insights, Databricks provides the engine and Perficient provides the strategy, implementation, and healthcare context needed to turn potential into outcomes.
A Thank You to Our Team
This accomplishment is the result of extraordinary commitment across Perficient’s Databricks team. Each certification earned, each solution architected, and each successful client outcome reflects the passion and expertise of people who believe deeply in improving healthcare through better data.
We’re excited to continue shaping the future of healthcare and life sciences with Databricks as a strategic partner.
To learn more about our Databricks practice and how we support healthcare and life sciences organizations, visit our partner page.
