As healthcare organizations prepare for full scale integration of electronic medical records through EHR and enterprise wide data warehouse initiatives, identity resolution is a priority for everyone. A Master Person Index (MPI) is a solution intended to solve the common problem where multiple systems or applications within the organization gradually become inconsistent with the most […]
Terie McClintock
Terie McClintock is the Oracle Healthcare Practice Director at Perficient, Inc. where she is responsible for providing healthcare subject matter expertise to the Perficient Oracle National Business Unit while also cultivating and managing the partnership with Oracle’s Healthcare Vertical and Horizontal Business Units. Terie has more than 25 years of IT experience. Prior to joining Perficient, Terie contributed over 13 years at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center with the most recent title of Director, Data Management Services. Prior to M.D. Anderson, Terie worked for IBM as a Senior Consultant.
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Balancing clinical effectiveness with profitability – #HIMSS14
A former boss of mine, who happened to be the CFO of a large academic medical center, used to say the phrase “no margin, no mission” all the time. I’m not sure I really took the time to understand it at that point in time, but I have since then, “grown up”. My understanding of […]
Manage health system costs with insightful analytics – #HIMSS14
Healthcare systems must be able to provide timely and accurate financial information for decision making and planning. Many hospitals and health systems are targeting hefty reductions in their operating budgets to maintain financially viable without interrupting investments in facility, information technology and other areas needed to remain competitive. This cost management culture requires organizations to […]
Agile Forecast Planning for Healthcare Providers – #HIMSS14
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare environment, provider organizations must be able to identify financial performance gaps continuously and quickly change course when needed. As we discussed in my blog: Elevating the Role of Finance within the Hospital, this requires a partnership with operations to ensure that the correct metrics are correlated within the budget process, […]
Workforce Budgeting via Oracle’s Public Sector Planning
Many public sector planning organizations struggle with common challenges during their planning and budgeting process. Inadequate tools for tracking expenses by Fund, Program, Project, or Activity Existing systems prone to mistakes No process control Fragile, easy to break Difficult to generate reports Oracle’s Hyperion Public Sector planning application is a great fit for preparing workforce […]
What I Learned at Oracle Open World, #OOW13
Oracle OpenWorld 2013 turned out to be one of my best experiences with a trade-show ever! I made new contacts, I learned about product strategy and I learned about awesome customer stories related to innovative healthcare solutions. Perficient’s Lesli Adams @lesliadams provided innovative solution overviews highlighting healthcare business intelligence solutions #OBIEE for Patient Centered Medical […]
Financial Forecasting Models for Healthcare Reform
Financial forecasting captures relevant operational, statistical and financial data in one place to enable sound planning and decision making. In addition, forecasting fosters a common understanding of business drivers and their effect on operations and financial performance. Effective Financial Forecasting and Enterprise Performance Management require these capabilities: – Capabilities for Budgeting and Flexible Variance Analysis […]
Sustaining Hospital Service Lines
“Sustaining a broad portfolio of service lines may no longer be a viable option for hospitals and health systems”. 1 According to HFMA’s recent financial planning newsletter, discussing the viability of a service line can be difficult for healthcare executives, board members and clinical leaders. The article encourages an analysis many metrics that need to […]
Healthcare Integration and Oracle
When a Healthcare Information Technology leader thinks about sharing data, they may not consider Oracle solutions, but indeed, Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of only five industries designated as strategic to the future of Oracle. The Oracle Global Business Unit is a true R & D business unit that has invested over 10 billion […]
Hyperion Healthcare Starter Kit: Changing the Game
If you walk into a Chief Financial Officer’s office in the US and ask if they use “Hyperion”, the answer is likely to be “yes”. Why is this? This solution has innovated to the level of changing the margin trajectory for ~6,000 customers across many industries by automating and innovating capacity planning and financial performance […]
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
There was a recent article in the NY Times with this title that captures the essence of the current costing discussion. One-liter IV bags normally contain nine grams of salt, less than two teaspoons. Much of it comes from a major Morton Salt operation in Rittman, Ohio, which uses a subterranean salt deposit formed millions […]