Customer Experience + Design

It is very important to make sure you determine your hardware requirements if you are implementing EDI for the first time, changing your EDI software or your EDI data needs. If you have already met your needs then you’re ahead of the game. If not, then once again make sure you get all key stakeholders […]

The U.S. healthcare industry has come head-to-head with tremendous challenges that have the potential to cripple the industry and reap havoc on multiple stakeholders, whose different interests and incentives have made change and progress difficult. However, a new era of data-driven healthcare is emerging as players are starting to explore the power of “big data.” […]

Our customers look to us as a trusted advisor with the technical expertise, business acumen and proven implementation  methodologies. We are looking for more Perficient colleagues to become additional experts and trusted advisors on behalf of Perficient’s national, award-winning IBM team. We have two excellent opportunities available that we’d like to share with our blog […]

Quality and Performance Initiatives The implementation and integration of information systems in traditional healthcare data processing and archiving has not only facilitated inter-communication, but also has the potential to develop intra- and inter-organizational benchmarking methodology focused on the improvement of quality of care. The inception of performance and quality measures can be based on national […]

Much has been touted about Big Data being “schema-less,” thus minimizing data modeling, especially Physical Data Modeling. At a low level (e.g., Map Reduce level), there is some truth to this as Map Reduce works with key value pairs. In the Map phase of a Map Reduce job, the input data is read in and […]

There is growing interest in Big Data these days. The common definition for Big Data is data sets which are too large (e.g., hundreds of terabytes or into petabytes) to be handled by traditional means. Leveraging Big Data requires an extensive degree of parallelism of both data and computing and may take advantage of low-cost […]

Today I have the privilege to speak on a subject near and dear to my heart: gaming. As an avid online gamer and consumer I know firsthand just how frustrating it can be to encounter an issue that disrupts your gaming experience. That’s a big part of the reason I’ve enjoyed helping clients like Activision […]

I’m happy to announce that Perficient’s healthcare team has again been ranked in the Healthcare Informatics Top 100 list. This year we ranked 69th. Even though Perficient provides technology consulting services across many industries, our ranking among the best in the healthcare industry is an honor based on the hard work of our team of […]

Opening General Session keynote with Larry Bowden The session kicked off with Larry Bowden touting the biggest launch for WebSphere Portal in 10 years and the key growth components driving it.  There has been a double digit growth in customers in last 2 years.  Key growth components and statistics include: Social 60% Discover new brands […]

The biggest challenge in today’s healthcare environment is the use of clinical data. Everybody knows that the healthcare industry is “behind the times” compared to other industries when it comes to using data to drive meaningful outcomes, largely due to the complexity of healthcare data. However, with rising costs, constant regulatory changes, and ever-increasing competition, […]

Certain terms within requirements signal details are missing, thus ensuring additional discussions. Discovery sessions are the norm but when a requirement document has the follow statements, requirements are not completed. 1.) The number one offending term:;TBD – “To be discussed” or “To be Determined.” A requirement with the letters “TBD” is not a requirement and […]

Use Cases Determine Design A few weeks ago LinkedIn released their iPad app; it was immediately praised for it’s slick interface and immediate usability. With a full-featured and flexible site like LinkedIn, most users expect a recreation of the original desktop website with a minor design change for tablets. What LinkedIn actually delivered shows more […]