Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Today, Perficient announced that it has been working with ProHealth Care to improve the organization’s data architecture and implement a new data warehouse to drive population health management. ProHealth Care is the first healthcare system to produce reports and data out of Epic’s Cogito data warehouse, delivering integrated, real-time clinical insights. From the Press Release. […]

Perficient recently worked with ProHealth Care to help the healthcare system with their data architecture efforts, specifically working on the integration of Epic System’s Cogito data warehouse and several other key data sources surfacing data via SQL Server. ProHealth Care,  a community-based healthcare system with 15 primary care clinics, three hospitals, and numerous other services, […]

In a world of broadband internet connections, online collaboration tools and the ability to work from almost anywhere – office culture can be difficult to sustain.  This especially holds true for people who live in large cities (where the commute can be problematic) or in harsh climates (like the never ending winter in Chicago this […]

For healthcare providers, it can be a challenge to effectively manage population health, and consistently measure and report its outcomes. Recently, ProHealth Care announced that it was the first healthcare system to use Epic’s data warehouse, Cogito, in a production environment. Specifically, ProHealth implemented the data warehouse to help its physicians assess their entire population […]

On Wednesday, we hosted a webinar on Big Data: Using Microsoft Enterprise Information Solutions to Make Smarter Business Decisions. During the session, Duane Schafer, Microsoft BI Practice Director at Perficient, began by defining Big Data, then analyzing Big Data with the Microsoft platform (including ways to manage structured vs. unstructured data such as a parallel […]

The Fusion Middleware Business Intelligence learning paths enable you to master the portfolio of Oracle technology and applications that provide the industry’s first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management system. You learn about BI applications, BI foundation and tools, and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery. Courses in these paths prepare you to deliver intuitive, role-based intelligence for […]

Lately, many of our customers are inquiring about enterprise information management (EIM). More and more organizations are using enterprise information solutions (master data management, data warehousing, governance and quality) to deliver relevant, accurate and timely information, enabling them to make critical business decisions and ultimately, improve performance. What about you – can you trust that […]

While poking around in Azure, looking to set up a BI Demo VM , I noticed that Microsoft had added a few SQL Server-oriented images to their catalog.   VMs labeled “SQL Server… for Data Warehousing”! There was one for SQL Server 2012 (SQL Server 2012 SP1 for Data Warehousing on WS 2012) and one for the current […]

HIE, clinical data, quality measures, financial and claims data along with healthcare analytics – what does it take to decrease readmission rates in nursing homes? There is so much attention these days on making the most of all of the clinical and financial data regarding healthcare, hospital readmission costs and reimbursement, but do we really […]

A few years ago, I transplanted my family from the south to Washington DC. I love the Capital, for its history, its influence, but we quickly realized we had left Mayberry and arrived on Jupiter. Horns honked and people moved around briskly. Maybe it was us – our naivete — or maybe it was the […]

Do you remember therbligs from your Operations Management class? The word therblig was the creation of Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American industrial psychologists who invented the field of time and motion study. It is a reversal of the name Gilbreth, with ‘th’ transposed. Therbligs are 18 kinds of elemental motions used in […]

I’ve waited 20 years for my Treasure Map. Yes, a map with hidden passages, remote islands and an “X” to mark the spot. As kids, some of us hunted in our yards looking for buried treasures. Kids today use smart phone apps for activities like “Geocaching” to explore public and urban spaces. What do we […]