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More than half of physicians reported feeling burned out in the past year according to Medscape. And nearly one in four physicians reported feeling depressed. Even more troubling: these are the highest percentages reported in five years. As our experts explored in discussions for a 2022 Forrester report, Ease The Nursing Shortage By Triaging And […]

The world’s largest gathering of insurance innovation, InsureTech Connect (ITC), is right around the corner. And our team of industry experts is excited to connect, collaborate, and address the most pressing business needs of national and regional carriers. Following last year’s conference, Perficient Insurance Principal Brian Bell shared three key takeaways from the 2022 event: […]

We are pleased to announce that we have been ranked the 10th-largest healthcare management consulting firm in Modern Healthcare’s 2023 survey. The annual survey ranked healthcare management consulting firms according to 2022 revenue from total healthcare consulting fees. Modern Healthcare has also recognized Perficient as the fifth-largest IT consulting firm. “As a trusted partner to […]

Diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility are key to significant future growth in healthcare technology. Developing new digital tools, as well as integrating them into the digital health ecosystem, can lead to significant improvements in healthcare delivery. Good health shouldn’t have to wait and accessibility should not have to be up to the beneficiaries — the health […]

It’s understandable that the pandemic could stretch the strongest of care teams to exhaustion and overwhelm. Yet healthcare organizations (HCOs) were grappling with clinician burnout long before COVID entered the scene. In fact, the importance of clinician burnout – and the dire impacts if not addressed – was formally recognized nearly a decade ago. In […]

In healthcare, individuals are navigating a highly emotional – potentially even uncertain – journey. Which is all the more reason that their experience with your organization’s contact center should be considered as a high-stakes touchpoint. I sat down with three of our strategists to explore this challenge and the opportunity that it creates for consumer […]

Param Singh: Hello, everyone. My name is Param Singh. I’m Director of the clinical operations solution practice here at Perficient life sciences. I want to welcome everyone to today’s discussion on our new partnership with Jeeva Informatics. This discussion is a way for us to introduce the new offering and solution as well as the […]

Disruptions in recent years have shown how vulnerable medical devices and services are to cybersecurity threats that can endanger patient health, safety, and privacy. In fact, experts have recently concluded that healthcare is one of only two distinctly vulnerable sectors in the face of ransomware attacks. The other is manufacturing, which places our complex industry […]

It took a pandemic to spotlight the reality simmering within U.S. communities and around the globe: sadly, health is often bound to social determinants like ethnicity, gender, zip codes, and ability status. Many health systems have accelerated momentum around diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, installing DE&I officers or, at minimum, zealously publishing equity statements. Two […]

Perficient’s life sciences industry experts have offered managed services for many years. I recently sat down with Vicky Green, a client executive who supports several life sciences accounts including pharmaceuticals, clinical research organizations, nutraceuticals, biomedical technologies, medical device, and biotechnology to get answers to some of the questions she receives from our customers. Vicky has […]

Our healthcare practice brings deep industry insights to projects within the payer, provider, and healthcare solutions space. So it makes sense that the team’s cumulative knowledge would include experts who’ve worked in the same halls as the clients we support. Take, for instance, solutions architect Melinda Schmidt. We caught up recently, and she shared what […]

Oracle has a long history of expanding into new markets by making strategic acquisitions – Siebel Systems, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, NetSuite, and Sun Microsystems come to mind. The latest move by Oracle, an agreement to purchase Cerner Corporation is one for the record books – literally. It surpasses any of the aforementioned acquisitions at a whopping […]