Data + Intelligence

We’re all set up and ready to go! HIMSS16 is officially underway, and our Perficient Healthcare team looks forward to chatting with attendees at booth #2871. This year’s conference brings together more than 40,000 people to talk about the challenges, opportunities and innovations in healthcare IT. Stop by our booth to hear real-world customer success […]

We continue our HIMSS16 Perspective series with an interview featuring Priyal Patel, MHA, Sr. Solutions Architect and Consultant, Perficient. Priyal is a detail-oriented and results-driven healthcare subject matter expert and business consultant. She has strong leadership and interpersonal skills and has led and collaborated with multi-disciplinary project teams from some of the most prominent healthcare […]

When I talk to people throughout the healthcare industry one topic that always seems to come up is population health management. Healthcare organizations are focused on managing the health of the individuals and populations that they serve. With HIMSS16 just around the corner I tracked down Lesli Adams, Director Population Health Strategy, Oracle to get […]

  We continue our #HIMSS16 Perspective blog series with an interview with Terie McClintock, MBA (@TerieMc), director, healthcare solutions at Perficient. Terie has more than 25 years of experience in information systems management directing the acquisition, deployment and maintenance of technology platforms and applications. Terie is a healthcare strategist and subject matter expert across multiple […]

Welcome from IBM Interconnect 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. After attending the session “IoT with Watson”  at IBM Interconnect I became a believer in the possibility of connecting the physical and digital worlds together through the power of the cloud. Peter Crocker – IBM Watson IoT Platform Product Manager provided a very complete overview of where the […]

Watson, IBM’s natural language processing and machine learning engine, has received a prominent role at the IBM 2016 InterConnect Conference. Watson has been showcased on the main stage in Las Vegas in keynote presentations and across IBM products and brands in the breakout sessions. IBM has featured customer stories for Watson in many industries for […]

The IBM InterConnect 2016 energetic day 2 general session focused on IT transformation. The session discussed factors and real-life examples of how company’s culture and IT has and must transform. Some of the key messaging included data, security, APIs, cloud and application integration. Speakers included: Caleb Barlow, IBM VP WW Portfolio Marketing, IBM Security Harriet […]

  1 – Pay attention as you’re moving around the EXPO center and notice where you are. The rows and booths all start to look a like. The good news is for the most part the type of product / services being offered are in the same general area, so that should help you find […]

We are well into the transformation of healthcare from a fee-for-service model to one based on outcomes. There has been a lot of buzz in the industry around population health management and an increasing interest in precision medicine. We talk about the need to control costs as margins continue to erode and the need to […]

Assembling data on a large scale is both a technical and political challenge. I’ve been involved with multiple hospitals where the finance and clinical teams never really collaborate and therefore the lenses put on either domain are not terribly realistic. I won’t even start about the Research part of this equation! Truly merging and using […]

The concept of secure coding used to be a little hazy, one of those you’ll-know-it-when-you-see it concepts.  Patterns for secure coding generally arrived as one-offs, where some vendor would recommend their product/library/framework  because it “solved critical security problem X and here’s why…”  Recently, however, the vast number of data breaches reported in the news has dramatically driven […]

Data, data, data!  IBM estimates that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years.  When we use our computers, tablets and smartphones, immense volumes of data are being generated.  Companies are tapping into this data as a potential source of competitive advantage.  After harnessing this data, predictive analytics […]