Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

This year was Perficient’s first year exhibiting at BAI Retail Delivery and there was a lot to take in from the event!  As we prepared for the conference and I worked on messaging, we knew our financial services technical capabilities were in-tune with the major topics being discussed at BAI. What we were suprised by was the […]

No one likes to be sick, but it is encouraging that so much information is at our fingertips to help understand our ailments and more importantly how we can prevent becoming ill in the first place. The Internet is not enough though… Last fall, I experienced a circumstance related to the care of my elderly […]

On Sept. 30 – Oct. 4, global financial services professionals and insurance industry executives will attend Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, the most important education and networking event for Oracle technologists, customers and partners. While you’re there, catch up with the Perficient team, an Oracle Platinum Partner, for hands-on demos, a track session, and drawings […]

            Thursday, October 18, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00PM CT REGISTER Join Perficient and Premier Healthcare and hear how Premier is integrating business processes with social and analytical tools from IBM to create a competitive advantage and pioneer a better way of providing care. Learn how to leverage IBM Social […]

Recently, a colleague asked me if I had a list of solid probing questions about the state of business intelligence within an organization. Moreover, because I was at the time part of our IBM Business Analytics Practice, he wanted to know if I had questions that specifically related to the IBM stack. What he wanted to […]

Although the term “Business Intelligence” has only been around for a couple of decades, the concept of business intelligence (BI) goes back much further, to the early days of data processing. Today, BI describes a category of software tools and business practices used to manage data, providing insight to support better business decision making. Have […]

Have you ever wanted to see what the Radiologist said about your MRI along with the image itself? I am a very analytic person and I always ask for “evidence” because I want to see the “slight tear” before I make a decision on whether I need surgery or not.  I believe that data is important to my attitude […]

World Class Service, for Free! Those of us in the banking industry that have been around a little while can remember the days when customers routinely paid for the services they consumed.  It seems shocking to the average banking consumer today, but checking wasn’t always free, paying bills meant buying stamps and writing checks(which  they […]

According to a U.S. Senate Panel on Healthcare, healthcare fraud and abuse costs as much as $100 billion a year, or 10 percent of the $1 trillion spent on healthcare. In addition, these fraud costs are increasing at a rate of $3 billion a year. The traditional approach has been to pay claims and then […]

The readmission rate refers to patients who are discharged, then readmitted to the same facility for the same medical condition within a specific time period. For example, if I am discharged with Heart Failure and I return to the same hospital with Heart Failure conditions within 15 or 30 days, that is considered a readmission. […]

In his article, Healthcare’s Radar Picks up Increased Business Intelligence Activity, Eric Wicklund makes some good points and ponders the best way to use business intelligence to improve healthcare. Some background: 75% of payers and 44% providers find value in analytics, yet only 26% have BI programs in use. This shows a tremendous market for […]

A recent article addressed some of the top challenges facing CIOs in the healthcare industry. Many of these challenges are created by the need to keep up with constantly changing regulations as well as addressing HIPAA security concerns. Here are a few of the top concerns of healthcare CIOs, and how health information technology can […]