Customer Experience + Design

In this video Joel Thimsen of Perficient and Larry Rosen of BCBS of Massachusetts discuss the architecture of the next generation EDI and SOA solution in support of HIPAA 5010 and modernization of Blue Cross middleware infrastructure in support of scaling to next generation capabilities.

It goes without saying that electronic medical records is a hot topic in healthcare technology. We are often asked, “What does Perficient do in electronic medical records?” While Perficient does not provide EMR or EHR solutions, interoperability should be top of mind as more and more records become electronic. This is what I was thinking […]

Web experience is becoming increasingly important within the healthcare space. Web portals, both traditional and mobile, have already gained center stage in the marketing and communication strategies that healthcare organizations create for both patients and affiliated physicians. However, rules around medical record reporting under meaningful use are creating further need for organizations to amp up […]

Social Media Transforms Healthcare Delivery Welcome to the first Perficient Podcast! I look forward to using this channel more in the future to open the lines of communication on today’s most important Health IT topics. This podcast is the first in a series of interviews with Dr. Nanette Nuessle. In this interview, we spoke about […]

I always enjoy Paul Boag’s posts on Boagworld when I get a chance to read them. His most recent post, Where are My Rounded Corners?, includes a great downloadable factsheet that helps explain how static design comps play out in various browsers. Here’s an excerpt: “One of the biggest areas of confusion among our clients […]

  According to a study on air pollution around elementary schools, exposing children to pollution during important developmental milestones can have a long-lasting impact on their future health. The study showed a positive correlation between the long-term health of a child and the pollution measures found at their school. I am certain that other correlative […]

I recently read an article by Dr. S.D. Madduri, called Life With and Without EHRs. Dr. Madduri outlined his journey from paper-based to digital medical records in an edition of Medical Economics published a few months back. I am personally obsessed with end users of healthcare technology. I often find myself asking my own healthcare […]

Last week I attended the Microsoft Connected Health Conference in Chicago, I was invited to guest blog at the conference by the Microsoft Partner team and you can read my Day 1 and Day 2 recaps. A highlight of the conference for me was finally meeting the marvelous Regina Holliday in person. Regina is a […]

Recent conversations about changes to Medicare, the new ACO model, and the evolution of social media in the practice of medicine has caused questions to arise regarding the evolving role of patient within the healthcare space. Many have been using the word “consumer” as synonymous with today’s modern “patient”. con.sum.er: one that uses a commodity […]

Last Thursday I spoke in a webinar entitled “Healthcare Reform & Physician Loyalty: What Can CRM Do To Support Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)?”. During this presentation I covered physician loyalty and why it has become such a hot topic in light of healthcare reform and increasing trends in physician turnover. Perficient’s Lisa Anderson joined me […]

I’ve recently spent some quality time in Axure Pro 5.6 creating a public facing high-fidelity demo site, with a goal of representing a new visual style as accurately as possible within the constraints of Axure’s capabilities. I don’t expect Axure to support a feature set that creates perfect front-end production code because that’s really not […]

Perficient’s Liza Sisler (@lizasisler) is at Microsoft Connected Health Conference this week in Chicago, where she met up with Shaun Priest, Sr. Vice President of Business Development at MEDSEEK. Together, they discussed how working together with MEDSEEK, we will work to drive better results for hospitals across the US and Canada with Microsoft’s SharePoint technology. […]