The financial services industry is a highly competitive, intensely regulated industry with great reliance on technology-based processes and automation to drive quality services to end-customers. To successfully compete in an environment that faces continuous margin compression, financial services must be efficient and the underlying technology they use must be delivered with quality assurance. Digital payments […]
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Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – February 2013
The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]
Pushing the Blue Button for Meaningful Use
It has been shown that active patient engagement results in fewer hospital readmissions, decreased medical errors, and less consequences resulting from poor communications. Engaging patients improves healthcare, saves money, and reduces errors. Meaningful Use has a program goal to deploy technology to raise patient engagement. The timing is ideal, since more patients are connected every […]
EMR 3.0 and Doctors Lacking an Analytic Engine
As a big fan of kevinmd.com, I enjoyed reading David Nash, MD’s take on how doctors need an “EMR 3.0” analytic engine for accountability and that creating an analytics tool that monitors gaps in care for a provider’s population is very important for accountable care. We also agree that as successful as the big EMR […]
Perficient Q&A: The Payoffs of MDM for Banks
Yesterday, we heard from data governance expert, Ben Leeson, about why financial services companies should be using a master data management (MDM) solution. In case you missed it, you can read part one of the MDM Q&A here. Today we’ll be talking more about the value of MDM in banking IT and how to overcome the elusive […]
Webinar: ACO=HIE+Analytics: Enabling Population Health Management
Healthcare organizations are challenged with collaboration and coordination of patient care while struggling with many aspects of payment and quality. The shift from a traditional fee-for-service model to the ACO has many physicians worrying about a return to capitation versus risk and cost sharing. The key is managing the health of a fixed population of […]
Perficient Q&A: Overcoming Master Data Hurdles in Banking
Today, we have a Q&A guest post with one of Perficient’s Data Governance Architects, Ben Leeson. Ben has extensive experience working on master data and governance projects for today’s leading financial services companies. He will also be a part of our upcoming financial services webinar, “Creating a ‘Customer 360’ with MDM in Financial Services” where […]
Why Do Many Health IT Projects Go On Forever? Here’s your answer
I guess I could’ve used “fail” instead of “go on forever,” but I chose to use the latter here for a reason. For smaller initiatives, you occasionally get the former, but as is so often the case with those large enterprise endeavors, it’s the latter. I’ve seen this occur time and time again, a couple […]
Fast Company: Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance
Yesterday, Fast Company released their annual guide featuring the most innovative businesses with the greatest impact in their industry. The financial services industry was very well represented with innovative leaders in several major areas that are very much in a state of flux right now. The impact that some of these leaders have had on […]
Beyond Compliance – IT Risk Self-assessments
In the financial services practice, compliance audits and vendor security evaluations are the norm for IT and operations. Our customers must meet standards to participate in the industry, to protect their assets, to protect their customers’ personally identifying information, and to meet their regulatory requirements as a business. When IT organizations take part in completing […]
EHRs: Change is coming in 2013
Sean Brooks, in his article 5 EHR predictions, very astutely anticipates several upcoming changes related to Electronic Health Records: 2013 will be the year of the replacement EHRs Many EHR vendors will disappear The cloud is here to stay I believe Sean is spot on and I would like to expand on this based on […]
9 Keys to Help Bundled Payments Work
One of the most feared and yet promising aspects of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), signed into law on March 23, 2010, is the voluntary five-year national pilot program on bundled payment – for Medicaid by 2012 and Medicare by 2013. Bundled payment pilots may involve hospitals (including long term care hospitals […]