Earlier this week Phil Fasano, EVP & CIO at Kaiser Permanente, wrote a blog post posing the question: If other industries have proven that IT can improve processes and reduce costs, why has healthcare been so slow to adopt? Phil’s post discusses the current state of healthcare IT as well as what entrepreneurs can focus […]
Posts Tagged ‘BI’
Webinar: Supporting Patient Engagement with Predictive Analytics
Healthcare organizations need to better understand the factors leading patients to make hospital visits in the first place and then effectively treat those issues in the first visit. Predictive analytics allows healthcare organizations to do just this by managing chronic conditions, engaging patients in their own care, and identifying factors that make readmission likely. Perficient […]
Advanced Analytics for CRM
Last week while at the annual Microsoft Dynamics Convergence in New Orleans (with 10,000 other people- partners, clients and MS employees) there was a great session on Advanced Analytics for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Many of these options have been available for the last few years since the release of CRM 2011 (both online and on-premises) […]
Change Data Capture: Capabilities, UseCases and Offerings: Part 2
The post is the 2nd in the series which covers capabilities, use cases and product offerings for change data capture technology. The critical capabilities which are expected in a CDC tool Selective data replication and synchronization is a capability to synchronize data between multiple databases. It usually supports high volume and mission critical scenarios. An […]
News Flash: Healthcare Reform Is Working (with some help)
I recently read an article in the NY Times talking about an “unexplainable” sharp and persistent slowdown in the growth of healthcare costs. It has been followed by others, such as this one from USA Today, that have begun attempting to shed light on the reasons why. Contrary to the partisanship rhetoric from our lawmakers, […]
Investing in Change Management to Drive Healthcare Outcomes
I attended a session at the HIMSS 2013 Conference yesterday entitled, Healthcare Kaizen, Daily Improvement, Not Just Events that Mark Graban, MSME, MBA, presented. At a technology conference it was refreshing to hear how technology should not be the only focus to improving care. In today’s healthcare environment, big strategic initiatives are all the rage. […]
BI, Portal and Interoperability: Perficient’s Hot Topics at HIMSS
My colleague, Taylor Rhyne, recently wrote a blog post about Perficient’s upcoming presence at the HIMSS 2013 Conference. With the show quickly approaching next week, Perficient has announced plans to exhibit and highlight solutions in Business Intelligence and Analytics, Portals and Connected Health, and Interoperability and Integration in this news release. Perficient experts will be […]
Who Dat? Dat Would be HIMSS Thought Leaders on BI in New Orleans
No question about it, HIMSS is my favorite conference of the year. Not because I get to use more abbreviations and acronyms in one week than I do all year or because I get to connect with old colleagues and make new friends. And believe it or not, it is not because I thoroughly enjoy […]
Perficient’s Big Data Stack – Infrastructure Tier
In a previous blog posting, I introduced Perficient’s Big Data Stack in order to provide a framework for a Big Data architecture and environment. This article is the second in a series of articles (click here for the first article on the Application tier) focusing on a component of the Big Data Stack. The stack […]
Insights from Unstructured Data in Healthcare
In healthcare, the current trend resulting from regulatory influences (Accountable Care) is taking the “data driven decision” from the patient level and service level for quality and operational efficiency to the population health and community level. Oracle’s Enterprise Health Analytics and Health Information Exchange are key enablers to help meet these objectives. Potentially useful information […]
Diagnostics Markers in Information Systems to Enhance Quality
Provider and payer organizations will be in a position to utilize their information systems in comprehensive organizational health, ranging from patient management to revenue cycling, but will also be able to delineate diagnostics markers to bridge population health with healthcare delivery systems. The most apparent ramification of this is the cross over between actual claims […]
New Perficient Perspectives: Big Data in Healthcare
Perficient Perspectives is a series of informal Q&A sessions with our subject matter experts on hot technology topics and industry issues. In the newly published perspective “Big Data in Healthcare,” Perficient Healthcare industry experts Pete Stiglich and Hari Rajagopal offer their thought leadership and expertise on the impact Big Data has on the healthcare industry. […]