Payers are transforming processes, technology, and teams to better attract, retain, and engage consumers, yet siloed data and disparate point solutions continue to challenge momentum. Our thought leaders in CRM and digital health, Michael Porter and David Allen, recently addressed these challenges in a session titled “Improve Outcomes, Drive Growth, Boost Experiences: Pragmatic, Revolutionary CRM” […]
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Your Guide to Healthcare Journey Maps
Healthcare is undergoing a retail revolution as businesses like Amazon, CVS, Walgreens and others increasingly disrupt how patients receive care. Patients, in turn, expect greater ease and transparency in healthcare, and they’re exercising their rights to choose the health systems that provide the greatest ease in navigating their healthcare needs. How can you, as a […]
How to Build a Healthcare Journey Map
You’ve learned about healthcare personas and journey maps. Now you’re ready to create a journey map for your healthcare organization. What’s the process? In our experience of building healthcare journey maps, the most important factor is to have a solid foundation in healthcare. The person who builds the journey map should: Have a strong knowledge […]
Activating Consumer Journey Maps Across Your Healthcare Organization
Chances are that your organization, wherever it sits in the healthcare ecosystem, has invested in a set of journey maps. These are tools, typically created as part of a marketing effort, that detail the journey your audiences take with your product or service. For example: How patients access care at your hospital How consumers discover […]
Perficient Listed in Forrester Now Tech: Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2022 Report
Businesses need to frequently develop new technology products and applications to stay competitive in continuously changing markets with evolving customer expectations. While relying on in-house development capabilities is ideal for some organizations, it is not always feasible. In the report, Now Tech: Modern Application Development Services, Q1 2022, Forrester states that, “Software is at the […]
People of Perficient: Meet Senthilkumar Shanmugam, Senior Solutions Architect
Senthilkumar Shanmugam uses his 20+ years of application development and enhancement experience to lead in a variety of areas at Perficient. We recently connected to discuss how he serves our healthcare clients. I also discovered what he values most about the team he leads. Thank you for joining me, Senthilkumar. I’d love to learn more […]
Understanding Healthcare Journey Maps
Healthcare journey maps are usually drawn as a linear progression with a clear beginning and end. But look closely at the healthcare journey and you’ll see it’s circular. The end of treatment doesn’t mark the journey’s end; instead, it’s a period of maintenance before the next symptoms or life events trigger the journey to resume. […]
Your Guide to Healthcare Personas
Do you wonder why patients don’t engage more with your website? Why they download but never use your app? Why they didn’t react to your campaign? Consider this: perhaps the experiences you’re building aren’t addressing your audience’s true concerns or emotions. Through our work with health systems around the country, we see this disconnect often. […]
7 Takeaways: “How GM Financial Elevates the Customer Experience With Journey Science”
Perficient’s Kevin Colletti recently joined forces with Srini Alagarsamy and Patrick Daly from GM Financial, as well as Adobe’s Chris Young to present the webinar, “How GM Financial Elevates the Customer Experience with Journey Science.” In the webinar, the panelists discussed how having a firm grasp on journey science can help personalize the customer experience. […]
Stopping the hemorrhage of the nursing shortage issue
The past 2 years have seen a dramatic shift from nurses leaving bedside and venturing to other areas of employment, leaving hospitals with a critical nursing shortage. COVID-19 has placed “the last straw in the camel’s back” for many nurses as they are exhausted and pondering their future. They might stay in a nursing role, […]
Your healthcare audience: Patient, consumer or human?
Healthcare marketers used to discuss the “patient experience” within their health system. More recently, however, the focus has shifted to “consumer experience,” and the reason is obvious: retail giants keep pushing deeper into the healthcare space, and they’re bringing retail practices and improved consumer experience with them. Before a person becomes a patient, they are […]
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Wants Crypto Regulated
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu spoke in late January at the British-American Business Transatlantic Finance Forum Executive Roundtable regarding the regulation of crypto-assets, including stablecoins. Mr. Hsu began his speech by noting how cryptocurrency has gone “mainstream with consumers,” noting that 16% of American adults claim to have owned, traded, or used […]