Terie McClintock

Jim Bindon is responsible for the strategic direction and growth of all of Avnet’s vertical industries, which includes Healthcare, Government, Finance, Retail, and Energy. His career in healthcare began over 30 years ago as a Director of Radiology followed by 17 years working for the Health Sciences Division of Eastman Kodak. Jim recently spoke to […]

One of the premier topics when discussing healthcare costs is the enormous burden of cost and the related percentage of GDP consumed by the management and treatment of patients. Unfortunately, the complexities of an underlying solution are not limited to a pre-defined methodology that will improve outcomes while diminishing inefficiencies. Rather, the underlying solution is […]

To stay competitive in today’s environment, healthcare organizations need to streamline inefficient processes and understand the types and amount of resources they need to deliver care across the enterprise. This can only be achieved through cost transparency.  Most healthcare entities still use spreadsheets for costing and primitive costing methods that date back to an assembly […]

Historically, patient engagement has been dangerously low.  However, with the rise in healthcare consumerism, along with Meaningful Use and Accountable Care, it begins to really matter what happens to patients when they are not in the clinical setting. Providers recognize that patients spend well under 1% of their life at healthcare facilities. Yet, it is […]

I was standing in line at the airport a few days ago and it occurred to me after the gate agent referred the standby passengers to their smartphones to see their seat assignments how much technology has changed the airline boarding process.  I recalled the days of being frantically taken down the jet way while […]

Missed diagnoses are common at the doc’s office.  Many diseases have common symptoms … to add to that, physician communication with patients during an office visit is decreasing to an average visit of 7 minutes.  How can data fill this gap?  One very important aspect is accurate patient history.  How many times have you flown […]

There is certainly a “cool factor” introduced when business intelligence is enabled to create charts and graphs and alerts.  But do executives really use this information to make decisions? I think “yes”! A few years ago during the economic downturn I worked with an organization that did not have visibility to current revenue volumes and […]

Perficient has created a patient portal to showcase how Oracle WebCenter and Fusion Middleware technology along with mobile applications can involve the patient in their own care to proactively monitor test results such as blood pressure, blood glucose, etc. through a data journal application.  Setting the expectation that vitals are monitored is nothing new, but […]

In healthcare, the current trend resulting from regulatory influences (Accountable Care) is taking the “data driven decision” from the patient level and service level for quality and operational efficiency to the population health and community level.    Oracle’s Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Information Exchange are key enablers to help meet these objectives. Potentially useful information […]

Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management supports the core requirements of the Healthcare Insurance industry and provides value for a broad range of use cases. For core profitability management, HPCM helps managers gain visibility and understanding of the cost to service different healthcare plans, group business and members. It helps provide an accurate understanding of profitability by member segment, […]

Oracle enterprise healthcare solutions provide the framework to accelerate compliance to Accountable Care Organization (ACO) reporting requirements by providing a comprehensive healthcare data model, pre-built integration to many of the major EMR vendors, and world class performance management tools to harness Business Intelligence and Analytics, Profitability & Cost Management, and Big Data … all necessary for Population […]

No one likes to be sick, but it is encouraging that so much information is at our fingertips to help understand our ailments and more importantly how we can prevent becoming ill in the first place. The Internet is not enough though… Last fall, I experienced a circumstance related to the care of my elderly […]