Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

As we approach 2012, it is critically important to consider the implementation of Healthcare Analytics. This point could not have been made more clear to me than it was during a final “orals presentation” prep to a recent prospective healthcare system client. “Technology has finally been embraced (begrudged by some in Healthcare) by the Healthcare […]

I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports […]

Perficient has created this series, “Healthcare Analytics and Meaningful Use” to drive discussions around unlocking the true potential of EHRs with analytics. Stay tuned for this four-part series to be published throughout October and November. We welcome your comments and questions below. Healthcare leaders such as Kathleen Sebelius and David Blumenthal claim that the HITECH […]

That was the question continually being asked at an event I was fortunate enough to take part in yesterday in Chicago, which was co-sponsored by Perficient, Premier Healthcare Alliance, and IBM. At this event, a panel was moderated by Perficient’s own Martin Sizemore on the topic of accountable care models. The panel included: Steven Riney, […]

Migrating from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will be a high stakes, costly, and highly complex effort impacting a large part of every provider or payer enterprise. Apart from the complexity of mapping from ICD-9 to ICD-10 (many are not 1:1 mappings), major changes to business processes, policies, retraining of medical coders, education of clinical staff, etc., […]

Consumers are savvier today than in the past. With the wealth of comparative information available, consumers can make more informed decisions on where to get their healthcare services. Those organizations that can provide meaningful data to consumers will have a definitive advantage in this new market dynamic. Texas Children’s Hospital is a great example of […]

Organizations are shifting focus away from what needs to be done to meet the government requirements for incentive money to how they can benefit from their new or improved interconnectedness. As it turns out, some organizations are using their connectedness to satisfy consumer demands. This places a different type of emphasis on business intelligence (BI) […]

Both Web Analytics and Business Intelligence attempt to tell part of a story, one in which a visitor becomes a customer and everything in between; however, these two disciplines have always presented information separately due to various reasons, leaving out the holistic view so many companies need to gauge efficiency and business value. Since the […]

In a previous post, I touched on the opportunity for lifestyle analytics to provide information for better care – specifically preventative care. In another post I discussed how having a healthy population benefits all of society. A recent article in the Wall Street journal, Tying Health Problems to Rise in Home Foreclosures, discusses a National […]

Over the course of my career I’ve been lucky enough to have been in charge of both transactional and analytical applications. As such I’ve been able to experience the “burn” of projects on both sides of the candle. Because of this I am acutely aware of the challenges faced in trying to manage the relationship […]

Join Perficient for our September 15th webinar, “Opportunities Abound: How to Leverage Increased Data Granularity in the ICD-10 Code Set” Migration from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 code sets is one of the most extensive and risky conversion projects healthcare insurers will face. Conversion will impact organizational structure, business processes, healthcare policies and IT systems. The […]

How’s that for a future headline? Earlier this week, a coworker passed along a link to an article with a rather bold title, “How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care“. This article was written by world-renowned Harvard strategists Kaplan and Porter who are best known for the Balanced Scorecard and Five Forces, respectively. […]