Healthcare

COVID-19 appears certain to be a long-term challenge, with successive, overlapping waves of surge and retreat. Healthcare providers and payors remain immersed in the pandemic. Deaths and hospital admissions are well above normal levels, requiring emergency response measures to manage and care for thousands of patients. Many questions, nuanced by geographic and demographic considerations remain: […]

In a previous blog, Digitally Catering to New Customers Post-COVID, I explored the impact COVID has had and is continuing to have on B2B healthcare organizations, specifically in areas such as commerce and site traffic for organizations that sell health/wellness products. I mentioned that there were two scenarios I can see unfolding as COVID continues […]

Series Authors: Tom Kiesau, Dr. Sam Bhatia, Paul Griffiths This series explores the uncomfortable reality that this adaptation will likely span a longer period of time than the authors believe has been widely expected. Three leading organizations — Salesforce, Perficient, and The Chartis Group — have come together to share bright spots within the healthcare community that can point the way to […]

I’m intrigued by a recent Harris Poll study initiated by by Change Healthcare.  I don’t want to parse the entire but I do want to highlight something Perficient has been talking about for a while in terms of the consumerism trend.  Healthcare’s complexity is an outlier compared to the experience provided by many other industries.  […]

Series Authors: Tom Kiesau, Dr. Sam Bhatia, Paul Griffiths This series explores the uncomfortable reality that this adaptation will likely span a longer period of time than the authors believe has been widely expected. Three leading organizations — Salesforce, Perficient, and The Chartis Group — have come together to share bright spots within the healthcare community that can point the way to […]

Series Authors: Tom Kiesau, Dr. Sam Bhatia, Paul Griffiths This series explores the uncomfortable reality that this adaptation will likely span a longer period of time than the authors believe has been widely expected. Three leading organizations — Salesforce, Perficient, and The Chartis Group — have come together to share bright spots within the healthcare community that can point the way to […]

One of the key advantages of Twilio Flex, Twilio’s cloud-based contact center platform, is that it is highly customizable. Organizations have a high degree of control over the customer, agent, and supervisor experiences. Many customers want to accelerate migration of their contact center operations to Twilio Flex with a robust suite of features. This is particularly […]

Recently, Built In, a well-known online tech community, profiled our own Vice President of People, Andrea Lampert, SPHR, to get her take on how companies can continue to build a culture while working remote that will last for the long-term. Her responses were both interesting and noteworthy, all the while shining a light on several […]

As I returned home after my recent total hip replacement surgery, I saw it again: Our nation’s best health systems may deliver exceptional service at point of care, yet miss the mark at so many other healthcare journey touchpoints. For me, it was just an annoyance. To others, it can be a barrier to accessing […]

It goes without saying that the start of this new decade is unprecedented, unplanned, and flat out unwanted. Yet here we are, and we must find ways to think creatively and collaboratively moving forward. B2B healthcare organizations are at a very interesting crossroads. With all that has happened around the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging technology and […]

Healthcare ecommerce has seen consistent growth over the past decade, and during the last couple of years, the Amazon effect within the healthcare space has caught everyone’s attention. Even though B2B healthcare companies have generally been quick to adapt to elevate digital and technological maturity, the involvement of marketplaces in the healthcare sector exposed the […]

This is the second post in a series on Google healthcare capabilities. To read the first post, click here. With the healthcare industry having to quickly jump on the cloud bandwagon with telehealth recently, it is becoming apparent that a new norm is (in my millennial opinion, finally) emerging. This begs the question – how […]