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I recently joined my colleague Jim Kouba, director, Healthcare Solutions at Perficient, and HIMSS Analytics Senior Director James Gaston to present our webinar, Moving to the Cloud: Modernizing Data Architecture in Healthcare. In the webinar, we discussed the benefits and risks of moving data and analytics environments to the cloud and the main healthcare use […]

Most of the time as a data scientist I get asked the question, what is the difference between Machine Learning and Statistical Learning? Even though you would think that the answer is obvious, there are a lot of novice data scientists that are still confused about those two approaches. As a beginner data scientist, it […]

Owning the patient experience is about managing 360 degrees of healthcare member care delivery. For healthcare organizations, that starts with understanding your ecosystem and every point of care interaction of your providers and their patients’. Empowering providers to own the patient experience begins with providing the right organizational operations structure in synergy with the software […]

Project managers working on large healthcare data warehousing projects have multiple methodology options at their disposal: agile, iterative, waterfall, hybrid. The challenge often becomes determining which methodology is best suited for the specific type of project. This is where using the Cynefin framework can provide guidance for healthcare data projects. The Cynefin framework is used […]

Spreading the news to the larger audience to include the rest of y’all that weren’t able / didn’t attend the IMUG last year. We started with a brief presentation of the new Work Centers capabilities (Work & Inspections) and now would like to include the latest update. IBM improved the capabilities in the new release […]

I recently joined my colleague Tom Lennon, director, Healthcare Analytics at Perficient, and HIMSS Analytics Senior Director James Gaston to present our webinar, Moving to the Cloud: Modernizing Data Architecture in Healthcare. In this webinar, we discussed the benefits and risks of moving data and analytics environments to the cloud and the main healthcare use […]

Data is king for many reasons, and the amount of data we produce every day grows exponentially. According to some estimates, 90% of the data in existence today was created within the last two years. IBM estimates that we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, or enough to fill 10 million Blu-Ray discs. […]

We’ve done many of API and microservices projects over the years, but I thought it would be nice to share what we presented at the recent CA World conference, which took place at the end of 2017. We shared the stage with TCF Bank, a client of ours. According to the company’s website, TCF Bank […]

On October 12, 2017, Gluon became available to the public. Microsoft’s partnership with Amazon finally has a chance to outshine Google with its great TensorFlow. Gluon is a deep learning multiplatform tool which currently utilizes Apache MXNet and soon will work on Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) as well as other platforms to come shortly after. […]

With digital transformation and the consumer experience top of mind for most healthcare organizations these days, it may be surprising to learn that measurement and key performance indicators that demonstrate the value of digital programs and investments are often lacking. In a recent Gartner survey on digital transformation, only about half of the CEOs Gartner […]

As I have been continuing to work in the information governance area as it relates to healthcare, I recently came across an interesting development. Some of my previous blog posts have covered the difference between Information Governance and Data Governance and some of the players in the field, including the American Health Information Management Association […]

Hopefully this doesn’t apply to anyone and pardon my assumption. While on a conference call this morning, I happened to look out the window and watch something that’s proven not very shocking. A delivery vehicle, not FedEx, not UPS, but another large carrier just did a three point turn in front of the window; except […]