Oracle

Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost implementations. Both Companies Agree to Integrate Salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds From Oracle OPN Press Release, Redwood Shores, Calif. – June 25, 2013   Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] and Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] announced today a comprehensive […]

Perficient Oracle EPM team is in NOLA for the annual ODTUG Kscope13 conference, June 23-27.  The conference is tailored to developers, technical architects and business users to gain insights on Oracle technologies and applications including business intelligence, Oracle EPM, Fusion Middleware and Application Express.  The conference format and activities provide a vehicle for extensive networking and sharing content around Oracle tools and […]

HFMA Thought Leadership Retreat participants met recently for a retreat about strategies for managing population health. One of the recommendations out of the retreat was to “shift emphasis from hospital care to primary care. Hospitals and health systems already are making this shift in various ways: hiring patient coordinators to ensure patients receive timely preventive […]

The CEOs of three major hospital systems participated in a round table at the recent conference that I attended to discuss how their organizations are working to improve patient experience.  One of the topics that emerged is “financial transparency”.  All three disclosed that in their facilities, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) makes regular rounds on […]

I hear these two phrases interchanged very often … yet they have different meanings. I decided to look for data that explores each in respect of the other. After completing a little research I found that 62% of patients who were given access to their provider notes took their medication as prescribed and “felt more […]

Before I start, it is important to understand Oracle’s license terms. It is not uncommon to download Oracle products from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Here’s an extract from the Oracle Technology Network Free Developer License Terms “You may not cause or permit reverse engineering (unless required by law for interoperability), disassembly or decompilation of […]

Almost everyone can relate to being a patient but not everyone can relate to the challenges of coordinated care management.  I’m here at the Patient Experience Summit at the Cleveland Clinic learning how providers will need to shift their culture and their resources to engage patients to be involved in their own care as well […]

2013/05/21 Update: I made a correction to specify that AES uses a cipher key and not an initialization vector (more information on AES can be found here). Some may have positive reactions while others may have negative ones with the title of this post. The Securing Oracle WebLogic Server series was building up to this […]

I read an article recently about the role of analytics within an Accountable Care Organization.  This article discussed the need for a longitudinal view of patients using data from the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).  Healthcare providers are making better data decisions through uses of EMR technology, but there is more than a “query” involved! Now […]

The next step after installing the software consists of creating the WebLogic domain. Before we do, as stated in the pre-installation posts, following OA&M best practices, application and user data must be separate from software products. The WebLogic domain could easily be created in the /var hierarchy on Linux or within the home or user […]

By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence   In a recent blog, I wrote about parallel industries; Manufacturing, Airline, and Healthcare and the need to get to a Balance Sheet of Clinical Results for the Healthcare Industry.  With EMR Adoption Rates increasing year over year, HIMSS is reporting for the Final 2012 reporting […]

By Lesli Adams, MPA Director, Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence   Blue or Red? Doesn’t matter.  It’s a question I get asked daily when I talk about Healthcare Consulting, Technology, and oh yeah, Clinical Measurement.  Over 2 years ago, when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  (PPACA) was signed into law, my industry went off […]