Discover how Northwell Health used participation in New York State’s Medicaid reform program to drive the development of a self-service analytics infrastructure. This session is included with your HIMSS 2019 registration.

Speakers Jim Kouba, Health Solutions Director, Perficient and Chris Hutchins, Associate Vice President, Healthcare Analytics, Northwell Health will dive into:

• Key techniques to build partnerships and establish a strong team approach between business and information and technology across the organization
• Best practices for providers wanting to build self-service analytics programs
• The importance of establishing a clinical enterprise data warehouse to form a single view of truth that enables Medicaid payment reform program participation

Our session will be held Wednesday, February 13th at 10:00am in room W308A.

Don’t miss this informative session at HIMSS 2019. We look forward to seeing you there!

Perficient is excited to showcase a comprehensive analytics and data strategy solution developed in partnership with Northwell Health at the 2019 HIMSS Global Conference and Exhibition.

In this session, Perficient and Northwell Health will discuss how the importance of aligning with business decision makers is integral to a successful analytics strategy and how incrementally building an enterprise data warehouse, and analytics system strengthens that collaboration.

“To meet the demands of its rapidly growing hospital, outpatient ambulatory and physician practices, Northwell Health needed an enterprise solution to bring together disparate data sources to deliver a holistic patient view,” said Jim Kouba, director of healthcare solutions at Perficient. “Through our partnership with Northwell, we helped develop a solution that enabled them to deliver better care throughout the patient’s journey.”

During HIMSS19, Perficient and Northwell Health will present the tools, processes, education, and measures for enabling information and discovery analysis across clinical, financial and operational functions.

The session, “Overcoming Challenges in Creating Self-Service Analytics,” will take place on Wednesday, February 13, from 10 – 11 a.m. EST and is provided as part of the Data Science, Analytics, Clinical, and Business Intelligence track.

“We’re honored to have been invited to speak and present with Northwell Health at HIMSS19,” said Matt Castle, vice president of Industry Services at Perficient. “We are thrilled for the opportunity to share best practices and techniques with leading healthcare providers.”

To learn more about Perficient and Northwell Health’s presentation, please read the full press release here.

HIMSS18 is right around the corner. This year, more than 45,000 professionals from around the world will gather in the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas, March 5-9 to help uncover the promise of health information and technology. The conference will bring world-class education, cutting-edge products and solutions, and unique networking opportunities to help healthcare organizations solve their biggest health information and technology challenges.

This year, I will be presenting a lightening session on how a leading integrated delivery organization, became the first organization to implement the IBM UDMH in the cloud. I will discuss how the organization is leveraging a consolidated, modern, cloud-based data platform, using IBM’s UDMH, to enable research teams to have a holistic view of the patient’s experience. We will also explore the organization’s journey to the cloud including: drivers, challenges, benefits, and lessons learned.

The session details are below:

Cloud-Based Data Solution Improves Patient Care

• Thursday, March 8 | 12:30 PM
• Level 1 | Hall G | Booth 9947
• The session will be followed by 60 minutes of networking

The Perficient healthcare leadership team will be available in booth #2671 to talk about our real-world data, cloud, and analytics experience. We are looking forward to talking with you.

Safe travels and see you in Vegas!

I recently joined my colleague Tom Lennon, director, Healthcare Analytics at Perficient, and HIMSS Analytics Senior Director James Gaston to present our webinar, Moving to the Cloud: Modernizing Data Architecture in Healthcare. In this webinar, we discussed the benefits and risks of moving data and analytics environments to the cloud and the main healthcare use cases for cloud migration.

My portion of the discussion focused on one of two healthcare organizations’ cloud journeys, including drivers, challenges, benefits, and lessons learned. I delivered an in-depth look at a clinical analytics solution I worked on with my Perficient colleagues for the large health system.

One of the points I covered about this client’s cloud journey were factors of moving the cloud unique to an analytics solution these items might not typically be part of an organization’s journey when the system being migrated is operation in nature, such as an EHR or a CRM solution.

The large health system had recently completed a strategic roadmap for a clinical analytics architecture, and it identified key goals:

• Establish a solid technical and data foundation for a unified, world-class enterprise analytics system
• Further position cutting-edge clinical research and state-of-the-art clinical and business management analytics

The solution entailed the implementation of an EDW on the cloud to provide cost savings and architectural flexibility. We streamlined migration and integration of data from the on-premises repositories to the cloud platform using design patterns that are built specifically for efficient data movement in a cloud environment.

At the end of the webinar, we received some great questions from the audience, including:

“How much volume of data was handled as part of the migration?”

In responding, I revealed large scale of data involved in the project. Some of the legacy systems had a history going back about 20 years. Overall, there were nearly 8 million patients and that constituted about 50 million encountered visits, 50 million medication entries, a few billion alert transactions, 100 million lab transactions and an equal amount of radiology transactions. It’s a fairly large footprint of data that comes over. The ability to accommodate that volume of information in an hybrid environment efficiently while establish appropriate security and privacy protections was challenging and rewarding to resolve.

For all of the details on the project, the other client success story we covered during the webinar, and the entire Q&A session, view the full on-demand webinar here.

With so much information in the marketplace today, it is often difficult to distill key parameters for strategic decisions. I enjoy helping people find useful guideposts for making informed choices in technology.

The Cloud is a key topic for everyone engaged in today’s strategic IT planning and software solution decisions. As such, I look forward to joining a Perficient Healthcare colleague and HIMSS Analytics guest speaker to present an upcoming webinar that will provide context for decision makers trying to assess the role Cloud technologies could play in their organizations.

The webinar, Moving to the Cloud: Modernizing Data Architecture in Healthcare, is scheduled for 1 to 2pm CT on November 29. During that time, we will deliver a better understanding of critical benefits and risks associated with committing to a Cloud technology.

Topics will include:

• The benefits and risks of moving data and analytics environments to the cloud
• Main healthcare use cases for cloud migration
• Deep dive into two leading healthcare organizations’ cloud journeys including drivers, challenges, benefits, and lessons learned

You can register here or via the form below. I look forward to connecting with you.