1 – Pay attention as you’re moving around the EXPO center and notice where you are. The rows and booths all start to look a like. The good news is for the most part the type of product / services being offered are in the same general area, so that should help you find […]
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IBM InterConnect Keynote – Digital Business Transformation
IBM opened the 2016 Interconnect conference this morning with the general session entitled Digital Business Transformation. Certainly a hot topic that sets the stage for the conference with IBM’s focus on a hybrid cloud strategy to integrate mobile, IoT, and cognitive technologies. The session was kicked off by IBM customers highlighting their solutions built on […]
Tackling Healthcare Data Challenges at #HIMSS16
We are well into the transformation of healthcare from a fee-for-service model to one based on outcomes. There has been a lot of buzz in the industry around population health management and an increasing interest in precision medicine. We talk about the need to control costs as margins continue to erode and the need to […]
Sayonara! Google Puts On-Site Enterprise Search Option To Bed
Not long ago, our team published a guide on Google Search for Life Sciences because the Google Search Appliance (GSA) can work wonders for companies in our industry. But we just learned that Google has decided to put that powerful yellow box, designed to sit on-premises, to bed. Let me say that again: Google […]
#HIMSS16 Perspective- Interview with Dr. Luis Saldana, CMIO, THR
A week from today more than 40,000 healthcare leaders, enthusiasts and educators will land in Las Vegas for the annual HIMSS conference. As we do our best to prepare for the event I wanted to take sometime to get some different perspectives on HIMSS. Dr. Luis Saldana, was kind enough to take some time to […]
Enterprise Data Warehouses: Strategic or Tactical? #HIMSS16
Assembling data on a large scale is both a technical and political challenge. I’ve been involved with multiple hospitals where the finance and clinical teams never really collaborate and therefore the lenses put on either domain are not terribly realistic. I won’t even start about the Research part of this equation! Truly merging and using […]
Perficient Wins IBM Beacon Award for Second Consecutive Year
Perficient was recently recognized with the 2016 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Enterprise Cloud Solution. This top honor is awarded to a few IBM Business Partners who have delivered cutting-edge solutions that drive business value and digitally transform how clients and industries operate. In her blog post, my colleague Alexandra Haefele, marketing manager at […]
#HIMSS16 Perspective: David Chou, Healthcare CIO
HIMSS16 is right around the corner and to help get everyone prepared I wanted to provide a series of blog posts with perspectives from different people in the healthcare industry. Today, I bring you an interview with David Chou (@dchou1107), an executive with more than 13 years of experience in the healthcare industry. David has […]
3 Secrets to Driving Partner Engagement (partnerDRIVEN Series: Part 1)
Got indirect sales channels? You’ve also got complex relationships and challenges – whether you’re in the manufacturing industry, wholesale trade, food service or agriculture. Your customer’s buying journey isn’t a straight path. It involves a lot more time, consideration and investment than most purchases – which makes collaboration critical between your organization and your channel […]
Data-Driven Healthcare: Transform Data Into Knowledge at #HIMSS16
For those in the healthcare industry, topics such as population health, precision medicine and connected care have been top of mind, and rightly so. While these topics create a lot of buzz in the industry, it is the foundational capabilities of an organization that are key to making population health, precision medicine and connected care […]