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2023 has commenced, and rates are climbing, inflation is bubbling, and banking customers are continuing to demand hyper-personalized products and experiences from their institutions. Here are five banking trends we’re forecasting for the new year. 1. Banks are focused on efficiency initiatives to optimize their operations and lower costs. Three prominent areas where there is […]

In the first blog in this series, Getting Started On Embedded Finance,  we defined embedded finance and took a high-level look at the goals and strategy a firm should take at the outset of its modern embedded finance journey.  In this blog, we will look at how a non-banking company can offer bank-like perks to […]

Amazon Connect offers OpenSearch as a service that can be used in a contact center to build reporting dashboards that supervisors can use to review agent activity and availability, agent performance and status, inbound and outbound calls, SMS, chats, and much more. In this blog, I will walk through how OpenSearch integrates and how it […]

Today, patients have more options than ever before. There is more content and research easily accessible to consumers. Medical device organizations need to cut through the noise to make their communications impactful. Three in four people say they want to have the same experience in healthcare that they receive from other businesses. Enabling a tailored […]

The amount of data being created, captured, copied, and consumed  has increased exponentially with society’s tectonic shift to digital reliance. As a result, the pace of data privacy and data regulation has accelerated on a global scale. Ensuring the security of your proprietary and customers’ data is paramount to staying in line with ethical and […]

With surging inflation, decreased hospital spending, and widespread market uncertainty, it is vital that medical device organizations stay knowledgeable about the future of the industry, so they can prioritize their investments strategically.  As we begin the new year, we expect the following eight trends to drive the medical device industry in 2023. 1. Virtual Health […]

Healthcare organizations (HCOs) are struggling with major staffing shortages and unprecedented competition for talent across the industry. According to analysts at Forrester, more prevalent chronic disease, the COVID-19 pandemic, and aging populations are responsible for leaving the burden on the healthcare ecosystem at an all-time high. Difficulty filling roles with high quality candidates has been […]

Driving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is top-of-mind for healthcare and life sciences organizations. Since the COVID-19 pandemic revealed disparity across industries, consumers are expecting organizations to play a more active role in safeguarding against health disparities and under-represented clinical trials. According to Forrester, “By 2030, HCOs (healthcare organizations) must actively dismantle the inequities that […]

Many clients have been asking about embedded finance, and as every schoolteacher knows for every person who asks a question, there are at least 10 others who have a question but are afraid to ask it. For both the questioners and those afraid to question, we at Perficient thought we would provide some background on […]

Ever been on an airplane? Sure, of course you have. Ever been on a plane taking off with bad weather? I’m sure you have, too. It can be a little unsettling taking off into dark storm clouds, especially because you can’t see where the plane is going. However, regardless of what the weather is like […]

According to a cross-industry study by MIT and Databricks, only 13% of organizations deliver on their data strategy.  Now, as we all know, healthcare organizations, especially providers, have been through a lot over the last few years, and this doesn’t make delivering on their data strategy any easier. This is why we ask ourselves daily: […]

A new Morningstar survey indicates that 90% of companies are developing an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy. But when you look at the largest companies in the energy and utility industries, 100% of them are intensely focused on ESG due to the environmental impact of their operations and the value it provides their customers, […]