Rising consumer expectations impact all industries. This has been especially true in the healthcare industry. As Perficient’s Chief Strategist aligned to Healthcare, I’ve seen how digital transformation has pushed the boundaries of traditional industry models with the goals of: driving affordable care providing better access delivering personalized experiences improving clinical quality and health outcomes meeting […]
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Executives and Cloud – Perfect Alignment
In today’s “digital everything” world with all the confusing jargon around the subject of “cloud”, it is easy to miss the point of why cloud technology is important. In this blog, I hope to remind the reader about some cloud basics. The reference to cloud in this blog is a more broadly defined definition of […]
The Future of Healthcare Event
Join us at “The Future of Healthcare” hosted by the St. Louis Business Journal Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the future of healthcare on Thursday, October 3, 2019, from 7:30-9:30 am at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis, MO, where a panel of prominent healthcare CEO’s from the St. Louis region will lead […]
Essentials for Your Digital Strategy: Zero UI
Delivering seamless, consistent, and engaging experiences starts with a customer-centered digital strategy. This ongoing series explores the characteristics that make up a great digital strategy and how to deliver powerful brand moments that solidify customer loyalty and drive differentiation for your organization. Technology is infused in every part of our lives and is only becoming […]
iHelp Lifecycle and Version Control in Life sciences
Previously, I examined how to develop content and implement iHelp. In this final installment I discuss the iHelp lifecycle and control. iHelp comes with a built-in version control system. When you create a new iHelp article, it starts at version 0, with a status of “In Progress.” You then enter and edit the content, testing […]
Implementing a Best-In-Class Find a Doctor Digital Experience
A successful Find a Doctor (FAD) search tool is incredibly important for healthcare provider and payer websites and mobile applications. Not only is it critical to lead generation for prospective new patients but is also used frequently by physicians for referrals and academics for researching information. With so many users of this tool, it is […]
Kali Project Encryption and Isolation Using Vagrant and BitLocker
Imagine that you work on different engagements or projects in which Kali Linux is one of your primary tools. Furthermore, maybe you also have the need to keep the data for each of those projects isolated from the others – in other words, you need to avoid cross-contamination between your projects. In this article I […]
Installing the IBM FileNet P8 Container Demo
Have you ever found yourself needing a development environment at 2 AM on a Wednesday morning? Well, maybe not, but if you have, and you are a FileNet P8 developer, or admin, you’re in luck. IBM has created an easy to spin up containerized implementation of P8. The instructions and code for installing it is […]
Migrating from Magento 1 to Magento 2
With Magento 1 support ending by June 2020, it is very important for merchants to migrate their stores to Magento 2. There is nothing to panic about this migration, but we know there might be a lot of questions about the transition. Here are a few that might be going through your mind, along with […]
Three Things To Consider To Be Forward-Thinking in Healthcare
Health-related information is sought in many forms by consumers-patients-members, everything from preventive health, self-diagnosis from symptoms being experienced, understanding a condition once diagnosed, to side effects of treatments are just a small number of examples. These all often start with a simple online search in the realm of healthcare. According to a survey by the […]
Starting a Mobile Wayfinding Program for Medical Centers
Previously, I discussed implementing a mobile wayfinding program into a medical center. In my final post of this blog series, I look at three options to start a wayfinding program. Depending upon your organization’s goals and the level of internal resources you have to dedicate to development and maintenance, you may consider the following options. […]
Why Healthcare is Moving to Cloud: Enhanced Consumer Experiences
The following is the fourth blog in a series about why healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud. In this series so far, we have looked at how the cloud brings robust data security, the time and cost savings the cloud brings, and the ways cloud connects data for healthcare organizations. In this blog, we […]