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Previously, I discussed why financial services firms should focus on digital transformation. This blog will analyze the aspects of the customer experience. The customer experience (CX) is not the same as customer service. Customer service is just one aspect of CX. It refers to the component that provides direct interaction with the customer in the […]

Are your patients or members getting the best experience from your website? As healthcare websites have increasingly grown in importance, so has the search functionality within those sites. One of the key ways to optimize your member portal or patient-facing website is to ensure that they can easily find what they need on your site. […]

It’s widely known that leveraging customer relationship management (CRM) systems for marketing purposes can be extremely valuable for organizations. It can assist with efficient communications, supporting patient/member journeys, building and growing relationships, and enhancing the customer experience to name a few of its benefits. As consumers are demanding more from the healthcare industry, irrespective of […]

New codes of practice and guidelines in the EU and US hold marketing authorization holders (MAH) to higher standards for the surveillance of adverse event (AE) and product quality complaint (PQC) data. While good pharmacovigilance (PV) and safety surveillance is a required practice, companies agree that having more and better insight into their data can […]

Is your Oracle Siebel CTMS Application slow? Siebel message broadcasting could be the reason! The Siebel message broadcasting feature is typically used by application system administrators to send important information to application end users about system downtime and system availability. In recent Open UI versions of Siebel, this notification appears at the top right corner […]

Lately, I’ve worked on a number of CRM projects for clients.  One theme sticks out more than anything else.  It’s that a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) project is not really a CRM project.  Instead, they are the following: Marketing Data Integration Knowledge Management In many cases, the budget for a CRM project has more funds […]

Digital transformation can be confusing. If a company has all its books and records maintained by computers, isn’t it already digital? If it has a functional web presence and even conducts business transactions via an integrated B2B or B2C portal, doesn’t that qualify as digital? While these scenarios do, in fact, involve the digitization of […]

What are the business rules that companies are using for claims processing? This is a common question when it comes to performing analysis on claims data and is becoming increasingly important with regulations on billing transparency on the way. The logic used for claims processing is typically embedded in code and is not transparent to […]

I’m often asked how data and analytics can help to solve key industry problems in healthcare. With that in mind, three key industry issues rise to the top of the list. 1. Cost of Care Delivery The cost of care delivery is at the center of the problems facing the healthcare Industry. Healthcare spending accounts […]

Providing the ultimate customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of digital transformation. When a customer or potential customer searches your site, providing personalized content is a large factor in the quality of their engagement. In fact, it can make or break the customer experience – and your business. Forcing customers to wade through results and links […]

Perficient’s Life Sciences practice regularly monitors the software release notes for several Oracle Health Sciences applications, including: Argus Safety Oracle Clinical/Remote Data Capture (OC/RDC) Thesaurus Management System (TMS) Generally speaking, we review release notes at the beginning of each month for the previous month. On occasion, there are no new releases and, therefore, nothing to review; however, […]

With the multiple audiences that healthcare organizations typically have, it is often difficult to identify how to incorporate them all into marketing activities and databases. The audience varies drastically depending on the type of healthcare organization. A customer relationship marketing (CRM) database is essential to connect all the audiences. These audiences can include: Prospective patients […]