So cloud has different meanings for different people. Not surprisingly, consumers have a different perspective than IT. What is driving the cloud? It’s all coming out of web 2.0. Web 2.o continues to improve and mature. Technology like REST and Ajax help it. The user or community based paradigms get better. Portal and the Cloud […]
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Healthcare IT Video Interviews from HIMSS 2010
Last week, a group of Perficient colleagues attended a conference for the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS). Liza Sisler (@lizasisler, and she also tweets on behalf of @Perficient_HC) connected with several influential social media pioneers in Healthcare IT prior to the conference and was able to gain time with four individuals to shoot […]
Provider Healthcare Analytics: Driving Quality Outcome Measurements
Last week, we hosted a popular webinar on healthcare analytics. In this broadcast, our healthcare IT practice team discussed why healthcare analytics matters to progressive health systems and took a look at some of the market-leading healthcare analytics products and their associated architectures. We’ve posted the slides on SlideShare and wanted to share them with […]
Who we’re following in Healthcare IT on Twitter
This week, we have a large team of Perficient consultants and experts attending the HIMSS conference in Atlanta. As an IT consulting services provider, we partner closely with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others who are extremely active in IT solutions for the healthcare industry. In honor of the social media focus the conference […]
Is your EHR due for its check up??
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) continue at the center of the National debate on improving quality of care and stemming the tide of rising healthcare costs. Providers are heavily invested in EHRs and their investments continue to rise dramatically. However, inspite of the huge investments being made, organizations do not seek regular check ups and ‘second’ […]
We’d love to meet you at HIMSS 2010 in Atlanta!
We’ll be in booth 9049 and we’d love for you to stop by to meet our Healthcare Directors/Bloggers John White and Tim Roberts as well as Liza Sisler, some of our technology experts and myself. We’ll be working with our partners IBM, Oracle and Microsoft to share information on their latest healthcare solutions as well […]
Meaningful Use, Getting some real usefulness for your organization
Ok, we have all been hearing, reading and discussing Meaningful Use for over a year now. ARRA this, HITECH that, I’m sure everyone is ready for a change. However it doesn’t look like it will be going away any time soon (if ever), so the real question is how does your organization get real value […]
Why the Meaningful Use criteria won’t increase provider adoption levels…
Ultimately we all expect that healthcare IT will improve the quality of care and lower costs. I was *hoping* that the Meaningful Use (MU) criteria would help get us there by solving the biggest issue that we have today – low levels of provider adoption of EHR. I was *hoping* that the MU criteria, combined […]
Physician Loyalty/Alignment Approach: Create the Right Long Term Relationship
In a recent blog post on Physician Loyalty & Alignment, we explored current trends in physician ownership and the motivations behind physician loyalty based on a variety of recent surveys and studies. In a webinar next week, John White revisits this topic with a thorough presentation on background trends but follows it up with an […]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
Perficient maintains a Healthcare Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/perficient_hc. Below, please find a weekly digest of the discussion in that forum. You may follow the account directly by ‘following’ us on Twitter here. RT @VinceKuraitis: Visions of #HIEs keep shifting #hitpol #hchit RT @ICMCCupdate: http://twurl.nl/0b4cnw # Booming industry all around…”IT helps drive $232B personalized medicine market” […]
The Value of Business and Architecture Roadmaps
Where do current IT solutions fit within the overall business context? When addressing issues, it is important to assess the overall picture versus the initial pain point. Often there are knee jerk reactions to immediate business requests that fail to get balanced against the overall business and technical architecture roadmaps, if the roadmaps exist. New […]
Microsoft Increases Healthcare Footprint with Sentillion Acquisition
Yesterday Microsoft announced it’s acquisition of Sentillion. Sentillion provides identity and access management technology to over 1000 hospitals including single sign-on solutions. This acquisition nicely complements Microsoft’s existing healthcare specific applications HealthVault (Personal Health Record application platform) and the Amalga suite of products (allowing data access and aggregatation of disparate systems). As such Microsoft continues […]