My last blog analyzed the five key points for designing and implementing a practical, patient-centered website. The final blog in this series provides examples of how to innovate a healthcare website, and boost credibility. Healthcare organizations can provide the bare minimum features of a patient-centered website, but the true innovators will level-up to accommodate advanced […]
Posts Tagged ‘digital transformation’
A Christmas Carol of a Terrible Customer Experience
As we approach the holidays, I’m reminded of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and how Ebenezer Scrooge came to see the light after three ghosts showed him the impact his actions had on himself and those around him, and how he could save his soul and improve the lives of others if he changed his […]
HIMSS Survey Results: Healthcare and the Cloud
Cloud adoption is accelerating. By 2020, about half of all healthcare IT workloads will deploy to the cloud, and healthcare decision-makers are continuing to invest in the cloud. The cloud provides the power for key digital transformation initiatives in healthcare, but according to the HIMSS Technology Outlook Survey: The Outlook for Cloud, many leaders are […]
Using Predictive Analytics in a Smart Factory
So you want a smart factory? Something that drives greater value by combining business processes and physical machines. Update your manufacturing processes from legacy automation to a fully connected stream of data. The solution translates a specific business problem into a data problem that can be solved with predictive analytics. Many manufacturing systems operate at […]
How Red Hat OpenShift Helps Enterprises Digitally Transform
Enterprises want to take advantage of best-in-class technology, whether it is on-premises or a service in the public cloud. Ultimately, their goals are to streamline operations, remain secure and compliant, and save money. Red Hat OpenShift, an open-source container platform based on Kubernetes that helps enterprises modernize and build applications, solves for these needs. OpenShift […]
HLTH 2019 Conference Highlights
Did you miss the HLTH 2019 conference? HLTH is a great gathering of minds, companies, and governments in one place rallying around healthcare as a whole. With more than 6,000 attendees, over 300 speakers, and 950+ CEOs and founders, this conference centers around how to move healthcare forward. Kia Mousavi, from our Perficient Digital team, […]
Predictive Model Ensembles: Pros and Cons
Many recent machine learning challenges winners are predictive model ensembles. We have seen this in the news. Data science challenges are hosted on many platforms. Techniques included decision trees, regression, and neural networks. And, winning ensembles used these in concert. But, let’s understand the pros and cons of an ensemble approach. Pros of Model Ensembles […]
Data Wrangling – Comparing Three Predictive Analytic Techniques
I spend a bit of time data wrangling. I try to pay mind to what the predictive analytic technique needs. Likewise, it does things on its own too. Then again, when interpreting results, I think on it again. Worse, when I try to compare models or create an ensemble, I really need to know. So, […]
Meet Perficient’s Chief Strategists: Mike Porter
Thrilling our clients with innovation and impact – it’s not just rhetoric. This belief is instrumental for our clients’ success. In 2018, we introduced our Chief Strategists, who provide vision and leadership to help our clients remain competitive. Get to know each of our strategists as they share unique insights on their areas of expertise. Understanding […]
Machine Instruction 3.0: Express Your Desire
The evolution of expressing our machine instruction. Let’s get there together. Machine Instruction 1.0 In the past, we taught our computers what to do by expressing our desires with exact instruction. Classic computer programming that listed step by step instructions. We taught our machines how to behave. Arguably, even legacy artificial intelligence worked this way. Of course, this way of directing […]
OLAP and Hadoop: The 4 Differences You Should Know
OLAP and Hadoop are not the same. OLAP is a technology to perform multi-dimensional analytics like reporting and data mining. It has been around since 1970. Hadoop is a technology to perform massive computation on large data. Around since 2002. They can be used together but there are differences when choosing between using Hadoop/MapReduce data […]
Is Your AI Strategy Haunted?
Many enterprises set out with good intentions to transform their organizations with AI, but fail to deliver without a strong AI Strategy in place. A game plan that overlooks business requirements and scalability often sets AI journeys up for disappointment and turn leadership off to future investments. But you don’t have to let your past […]