Healthcare organizations play a key role in offering access to care, employing and motivating skilled workers, and acting as social safety nets in their communities. They, along with life sciences organizations, serve on the front lines of addressing health equity. Perficient is dedicated to enabling these organizations to operate equitably in all areas of their […]
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U.S. Regulations to Consider When Managing a Cryptocurrency Fund
This piece was written in collaboration with Chandni Patel, Director of Financial Services and member of Perficient’s Digital Assets Working Group. Our Digital Assets Team has blogged in the past about the regulatory landscape facing cryptocurrency from a banking perspective (OCC Provides Roadmap for National Banks and Savings Associations To Conduct Crypto Activities, NY Federal […]
Vlog: Powering Efficient Decentralized Trials With Diversity in Mind | Jeeva Informatics
Param Singh: Hello, everyone. My name is Param Singh. I’m Director of the clinical operations solution practice here at Perficient life sciences. I want to welcome everyone to today’s discussion on our new partnership with Jeeva Informatics. This discussion is a way for us to introduce the new offering and solution as well as the […]
Medical Devices and Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know
Disruptions in recent years have shown how vulnerable medical devices and services are to cybersecurity threats that can endanger patient health, safety, and privacy. In fact, experts have recently concluded that healthcare is one of only two distinctly vulnerable sectors in the face of ransomware attacks. The other is manufacturing, which places our complex industry […]
Why Healthcare Organizations are Missing the Mark in M&A
Market pressures are motivating both hospitals and health systems to seek operational, strategic, or financial value through consolidation. The yearly number of hospital M&A transactions has grown over the past decade. While healthcare M&A slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are once again starting to see deal volume grow at a rate that’s overwhelming […]
Choose Your Technology Correctly for Your Commerce and Insurance Strategy
In our final blog on insurance commerce, we build on the previous insights on strategy, customer needs, and internal readiness. We’ve always advocated a process-first mentality – and once these key inputs are ready, technology can be a great accelerator or activator of your strategy. As we draw on the cumulative insights of insurance commerce, […]
Considerations for Alternative Trading Systems (Part 3 of 6)
So far in our 6-part blog series explaining the intricacies of TRACE, we have defined TRACE reporting and detailed the prep work to be done in order to effectively report TRACE transactions. Now, we will review considerations for alternative trading systems, before delving into the details of when and by whom transactions are to be […]
The 8 Unicorns In Healthcare And Biotech
Let’s talk about unicorns. What do unicorns have to do with business? According to Investopedia, a unicorn is an organization that has a valuation of more than $1 billion. No, that doesn’t mean companies like Oracle, Microsoft, or Apple (at least, not anymore). Unicorns are typically technology companies touted as start-ups with no proven track […]
People of Perficient: Meet Lindsey Broadwell Ph.D., Solutions Architect
I recently sat down with one of our lead solutions archiects, Lindsey Broadwell Ph.D.. Lindsey has expertise in topics relating to the social determinants of health and a passion for influencing meaningful change. I enjoyed hearing more about her position at Perficient and the role Perficient plays in creating a more equitable healthcare industry, and […]
Highlights from John Glen’s Keynote Speech at the Innovate Finance Global Summit on Crypto
John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury of the United Kingdom, delivered the keynote speech at the Innovate Finance Global Summit held in London last month. Glen began his speech by stressing the enormous contributions financial services institutions, particularly “fintech unicorns,” have made to the UK; the UK is the leading European fintech hub and […]
Pandemic Car Buys, Rising Interest Rates, and High Gas Prices: A World of Hurt for Lenders
It really is a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. It seems like everyone in 2021 took out a loan on a new car, even though we all knew supplies were low and demand was high. As the Financial Times pointed out: “Americans went shopping for cars in a big way during the pandemic. […]
How to Commit Your Entire Organization to Your Commerce Strategy
It’s hard to believe we are more than halfway through our blog series on commerce for the insurance industry. Reflecting on opportunities to improve commerce in the insurance industry and find ways to positively impact this industry with new opportunities with my colleague Beth Duerr has been exciting. Now we’re focusing on internal commitment. We’ve […]