IBM is selling their AI for healthcare, known as Watson Health, to Francisco Partners for an estimated $1 billion. Watson Health is an artificial intelligence system created by IBM. The system is designed to work with healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies to help improve the efficacy of treatments and reduce healthcare costs. Francisco Partners has […]
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10 Questions & Answers About Using Virtual Agents for Medical Information Sharing
In our recent webinar, “Improve Medical Product Information Sharing With Virtual Agents,” Prabha Ranganathan, Kari Blaho-Owens, and Nico Frantzen discussed the ways that implementing virtual agents in life sciences companies’ call center operations can help to promote pharmacovigilance and more effectively service customers. Below are some of the questions we answered during the webinar and some that […]
cURL to get a JSON makeover
cURL is frequently used by developers working with REST API’s to send and receive data using JSON notation. This has been a common pattern for years, but it has never been seamless. There have been a number of times when I’ve been trying to get a JSON payload to work against an endpoint for a […]
Understanding Searchable Encryption in the Cloud
Many companies struggle with storing PII in the cloud. When you store sensitive data in the cloud, it’s critical to guarantee that it remains private. Encrypting the data before sending it to the cloud storage server is one approach to do this. This will protect your information and ensure that no one can access it. […]
Protect PII with anonymized datasets for Data Scientists with differential privacy
Businesses and organizations now hold more personal information than ever before. Storing large amounts of structured and unstructured data may be useful in a variety of ways, such as reporting and analytics, but it might expose PII that is linked to the data being analyzed.As organizations are increasingly under pressure to comply with data privacy […]
[Part 2 of 2] How to Refresh Your Marketo Data for the New Year
New Year, New You… continued! Last week, I asked you to take a moment and think about your Marketo instance. When was the last time you focused purely on data hygiene for marketing automation? It’s a fresh new year, and now is the perfect time to refresh your data! As such, I posted a list […]
Beyond Encryption: Protect sensitive data using k-anonymity
Businesses and organizations now hold more personal information than ever before. Storing a lot of data may be useful in a variety of ways, such as reporting and analytics, which might expose PII that is linked to the data being analyzed. When data is being transmitted or stored, encryption is useful for protecting it, whereas […]
5 Takeaways From Our “Improve Medical Product Information Sharing With Virtual Agents” Webinar
Our life sciences and technology experts recently delivered the webinar, “Improve Medical Product Information Sharing With Virtual Agents,” where they discussed how automation and artificial intelligence can be used to optimize call center operations and improve end-user experiences. Here are five key takeaways: Just because a system is powered by AI doesn’t mean you have […]
Real-time Retail with Databrick’s Lakehouse Accelerators
Databricks has announced Lakehouse for Retail, a collection of more than twenty free, open-source Retail Solution Accelerators. Solution accelerators are tools that help companies in constructing a solution for their data and AI problem. They can be used to show the feasibility of a prototype and then the business can use that as support for […]
Best practices for securing Snowflake
Understanding best practices for securing Snowflake and having a concrete implementation plan is a critical Day Zero deliverable. Snowflake is a secure, cloud-based data warehouse. There are no hardware or software components to select, install, configure, or maintain. There is virtually no software to install, configure, or manage. Snowflake takes care of ongoing maintenance and […]
HIPAA compliance with Redshift
At Perficient, our Data Solutions team has worked closely with our Healthcare division to implement Redshift for HIPAA and HITECH compliance. Snowflake offers healthcare organizations a secure data warehouse environment with many HIPAA compliance features. Perficient’s implementation team includes Snowflake and health industry subject matter experts. We’ll take a look at Snowflake’s benefits for healthcare providers […]
HIPAA compliance with Snowflake
At Perficient, our Data Solutions team has worked closely with our Healthcare division to implement Snowflake for HIPAA and HITECH compliance. Snowflake offers healthcare organizations a secure data warehouse environment with many HIPAA compliance features. Perficient’s implementation team includes Snowflake and health industry subject matter experts. We’ll take a look at Snowflake’s benefits for healthcare providers […]