Join us Wednesday, May 30, at 12:00 PM CDT, for the Perficient webinar, “Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations & Analytics.” Register now! Healthcare providers are faced with significant challenges due to regulatory and reimbursement requirements and the everyday pressures of managing care. Providers must be proactive to manage the health of a population […]
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Delivering IBM Exceptional Web Experiences
Don’t Miss Perficient at IBM’s Exceptional Web Experience Conference. Booth #106 Perficient is ideally positioned to make web experiences exceptional! Hundreds of Fortune 2000 and large enterprise clients choose Perficient to create web experiences for their customers, partners, and internal constituents. The Perficient experience includes: Healthcare, Financial Services, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing expertise Nationally recognized […]
Creating the Canonical Modeling Environment – Part 2
Now that we’ve established what a canonical data model is, let’s talk about our objectives for what we want to achieve with our Canonical Data Model and what toolsets can be applied. In my Canonical Data Modeling environment, I want to store and manage my entities and their relationships. I want support for the Conceptual, […]
The Marriage of ACOs and Technology
ACOs are paving the way for a healthcare payment model that is based on quality and efficiency instead of volume. They were created as a response to health reform initiatives that focus on improving patient safety, quality of care and affordability. As the name suggests, ACOs are institutions that collectively share the risks associated with […]
EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health
Spurred on by Meaningful Use, there has been an explosion in the implementation of EHRs over the last several years. This tidal wave has been sweeping through the healthcare community, sucking up much of the available bandwidth that organizations have to deal with change of this magnitude. The effect is really no different than what […]
Think Social Media and Healthcare don’t mix? WRONG!
Dan Bowman, in a recent article, quotes a family physician who feels social media has no place in healthcare. He asserts busy physicians don’t have time to add yet another technology to their already busy schedules. I see his point, but I have to challenge this. Social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and many other […]
The Future of US Healthcare: Questions and Concerns, Part II
In Part II of this blog series on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), I will explore the following statement: “Adults with pre-existing conditions became eligible to join a temporary high-risk pool, which will be superseded by the healthcare exchange in 2014.To qualify for coverage, applicants must have a pre-existing health condition and […]
Don’t use technology to fix a training problem
Farzad Mostashari , in a meeting with the National Quality Forum in late April, says, “In 2016, it’s going to be rare to find a doctor without EHRs.” He went on to say we need to “… find people who have done it, who understand deeply what it takes and not just the challenges but […]
BI and SharePoint: A Winning Alliance for Epic EMR [VIDEO]
Perficient worked with Meriter Health Services to implement Microsoft Business Intelligence and SharePoint 2010 to work in conjunction with their Epic Electronic Medical Records system. The result of this paring has been a decrease in costs, increased efficiency across the organization, and ability to locate relevant information and data quickly.
EMR Management with SharePoint & Microsoft BI [VIDEO]
Perficient recently paired up with Epic Systems to create the first integration of the two systems in the U.S. for DuPage Medical Group. The solution also incorporates the Microsoft Business Intelligence solution, which improves reporting accuracy to drive business efficiency.
PHM: Making the Sum Greater than the Whole
Research suggests that an effective healthcare model focusing solely on evidence-based medicine or preventative does not impact cost and quality as well as programs that merge evidence-based medicine with a healthcare program that encourages preventative care and evidence-based medicine (Cohen, Neumann & Weinstein, 2008). As a result, organizations that are focused on containing costs and […]
The ABCs of the CCD – Part I of III
CCD is an acronym that stands for “Continuity of Care Document”. The CCD is a file that uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, which could have one of 3 different structure levels. I will explain the various structure levels in Part III of this blog series. A CCD contains patient related information that could be […]