Healthcare

The phrase “Consumerization of Healthcare” has been around for several years, but only recently has it begun to fulfill its promise by meeting the needs of a wider audience. While consumers have demanded and received more detailed information about health plans online for over a decade, the latest shifts have allowed patients greater access to […]

Q: Can you overstate the value of customer satisfaction and retention? A: It isn’t necessary, the numbers speak for themselves. • 64% say customer experience is more important than price when deciding who gets their business. * • 12 – the number of positive experiences it takes to make up for one poor one. * […]

That image makes budgeting even seem fun, right? I can think of myself perched up on a thick fluffy cloud crunching numbers. Well honestly … I’m not sure that budgeting is ever fun but we now have the combination of the industry leading budgeting solution, Oracle Hyperion Planning, available in the cloud. As I mentioned […]

Streamlining data to meet a multitude of challenges, from regulatory compliance and reimbursement management to delivering quality care to their patients across the care continuum is a constant priority within hospitals today. As an Oracle PartnerNetwork member, Perficient is among the initial partners participating in Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Enterprise Healthcare Analytics delivering advanced […]

For Day Two of Oracle’s Leaders Circle, participants had the option to again select from a series of Industry summit programs or the Oracle Women’s Leadership Summit (OWL). I selected the OWL Program, not really knowing what to expect, hoping that it would not be more of the same ‘woe is me – a woman […]

Having many siloed healthcare applications that don’t easily exchange information has been the trademark of health information technology, denying patients and providers the benefits that interoperable health information makes possible. Government regulations and the evolving healthcare landscape enforce the need for interoperability throughout the continuum of care. Integrated systems streamline data sharing, support population health […]

Technology is opening up opportunities to move us further down the path of “best” outcomes AND more cost effectively than ever before. That is a tsunami that cannot be stopped. The use of personal health information in the delivery of care, optimizing outcomes and administering care within a cost context that our nation can afford […]

This week, my colleagues within the Perficient Enterprise Performance Management team will be discussing Rapidly Deploying Budgeting and Forecasting with Oracle and Perficient on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CT.  Join the webinar to listen in! As I mentioned in my Blog:  The good ‘ole budgeting days are back!, this solution […]

Life sciences companies are devoted to developing sophisticated drugs, services and other therapies, yet many still rely on spreadsheets, paper, and overly-complicated homegrown systems to manage activities related to clinical trials. It’s hard to believe, considering the myriad benefits that a tried-and-true clinical trial management system (CTMS) can provide. It’s widely understood that a CTMS […]

With a variety of clinical trial management systems (CTMS) on the market, determining which one is right for your organization can be difficult. Ovum, a leading technology research and advisory firm, recently released Decision Matrix: Selecting a CTMS Solution, 2013–14, a report that covers the clinical IT landscape, outlines critical factors that life sciences companies […]

My … how times are changing … back to what they once were!  I guess it has something to do with living long enough to experience things, but budgeting with Oracle’s exceptional world class platform Hyperion Planning solution is now available in the cloud.  This means that both new and existing Hyperion Planning customers of […]

Kathryn Watson, Solution Architect at Perficient, presented at KScope14 today about reversing the star schema in Oracle BI logically in the metadata Administration tool of Oracle Business Intelligence. It has long been accepted that classically designed dimensional models provide the foundations for effective Business Intelligence applications.  But what about those cases in which the facts […]