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 […]
Financial Services
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 […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in Financial Services – January 2013
Trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to IT issues is a challenging task. Emerging technology forces in the financial services industry are already impacting business. The convergence of these forces does present challenges; however, it also provides a window of opportunity for financial institutions to elevate business performance and gain a […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – January 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 […]
Webinar: Creating a ‘Customer 360’ with Master Data Mgmt.
Technology has challenged the financial services industry and will continue to play a vital role in supporting business growth and change. With change comes new challenges for financial institutions. Mobile, social and analytics strategies give the promise of improved customer service, reduced costs, effective marketing and banking innovation. However, these strategies require a trusted view of their data – something […]
What Tablet Growth Means for Your 2013 Banking Services Strategy
Believe it or not, an astounding 19 percent of Americans over the age of 18 now own a tablet of some sort. This is double the number Forrester noted in 2011. It’s true that tech penetration is lower among adults over 47, but not by much. This demographic is now at 14 percent ownership, which is […]
Patient Data & Bundled Payments: Robbing Peter to Pay for Paul
The topic of bundled payments, and how healthcare organizations and ACOs will respond, has been a vital point of discussion as of late. As a result, my favorite read last week was Bundled Payments: Challenges & Opportunities written by Sheldon Hamburger and Erica Jankelovitz, JD, on the HIMSS site. For the uninitiated, bundled payments are […]