Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

We have shown you a variety of ways in which you can screw up your portal project.  Glenn Kline and I had fun documenting them.  Of course, we had less fun living through them or consoling clients who were living through them but time heals all wounds and now we can laugh about it.  We’d […]

Join us Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:00 p.m. CT for the Perficient Webinar “12 Things NOT to do on a Portal Project” Register Now! We’ve all attended our share of webinars and conference sessions talking about best practices in portal and collaboration projects and the things everyone should do to ensure their portal is a […]

For all that I love portal and collaboration technology, I recognize there are time when you shouldn’t use it.  It can be heavy if it’s a one-off type application.  Portal can be difficult to implement if you are trying to recreate an entire application from scratch.  It can be really difficult and time consuming if […]

I recently attended Microsoft Tech-Ed 2011 and had the chance to sit down with Mike DeVerter of Rackspace, a Perficient partner, after I presented at the conference about the 10 Immutable Laws of SharePoint Security. In this presentation, I talked about SharePoint security using the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model as a guide, covering where […]

The use of telehealth and mobile health technologies is booming. From diabetes apps to virtual visits on patient portals, technology is providing a cost-effective and convenient way for patients and healthcare providers to connect and work together towards the goal of better health. Evidence from the Miami Project, which studied the use of patient portals […]

Along with the Office Team, the SharePoint product team has announced the availability of Service Pack 1 in June.  In addtion to the usual bundling of updates and hotfixes,  the following data management enhancements will be included: Site Recycle Bin – administrators will be able to recover site collections and sites accidentally deleted by their owners in a […]

Health IT and the Doctor-Patient Relationship This is the last in our series of interviews with Dr. Nanette Nuessle. In this interview, we discussed the technologies Dr. Nuessle uses as a concierge physician. This discussion evolved into an discourse over whether healthcare technology helps or hinders the important relationship between patients and physicians. Dr. Nuessle […]

We are going to be spending some time focusing on integration.  Inevitably people ask, “But can you integrate with product x, y, or z?”  Our answers is almost always yes with a lot of qualification.  Everyone wants out of the box integration that just works but no vendor ever really has a good answer.  Because […]

In spite of the ever increasing interest in “the cloud”, the majority of enterprise SharePoint 2010 deployments still involve architecting a set of server-based resources (e.g. CPU, Memory, and Storage) as a target for the deployment of one or more SharePoint 2010 Farms.  These resources are, however, no longer limited to physical servers, but are […]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) introduced in early 2009 provides reimbursement incentives for Medicare and Medicaid to physician and hospital providers who meet the requirements of implementing “meaningful use” with an electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) certified system. The reimbursements start in October 2011 and continue through 2015 with […]

Web experience is becoming increasingly important within the healthcare space. Web portals, both traditional and mobile, have already gained center stage in the marketing and communication strategies that healthcare organizations create for both patients and affiliated physicians. However, rules around medical record reporting under meaningful use are creating further need for organizations to amp up […]