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What it Takes to Build a Successful Career in Health IT

In a video interview I recently recorded with Steven Scott, general manager of our healthcare practice, and Martin Sizemore, principal of healthcare strategy, we discussed the reasons why someone should consider a career at Perficient within our healthcare team. These reasons to build your career here are also strong factors for working in healthcare IT […]

#hxdconf – Resources for Following the Healthcare Experience Design Conference

The first ever Healthcare Experience Design Conference is currently underway in Boston, and thanks to some active conference participants those of us who can’t be there in person can still follow along from afar. Here are some resources for doing just that: #hxdconf hashtag on Twitter Thuc Huynh’s blog Matthew Grocki’s blog The conference’s CrowdVine […]

Study reveals healthcare groups most likely to increase IT spending

In a recent report by Healthcare IT News called “Core needs, mobility to fuel health IT spending” a new study releases findings about what types of healthcare workers are likely to increase spending in healthcare IT and in what areas. The study was CompTIA’s Second Annual Healthcare IT Insights and Opportunities study. Key objectives, as […]

Harness Clinical and Financial Data with Enterprise Health Information Exchange

Enterprise Health Information Exchange (EHIE) is a key way to empower physicians and patients to demonstrate meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). In this presentation, I discuss the business case for EHIE and discuss some of the organizations and products currently leading the market. Let me know what you think! (You can also watch […]

InformationWeek 500 Industry Snapshot: Healthcare and Medical

InformationWeek provided a snapshot of how healthcare and medical companies are innovating. Efficiency and business intelligence top the list, followed by lowering costs and improving customer service. Unfortunately, eco-friendliness is at the bottom of the list. Where do you see your healthcare organization’s priorities? Take a look at the full chart here. InformationWeek also indicates […]

Perficient wins Microsoft Health Provider Partner of The Year Award

While attending the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference last week in Washington DC, I was excited to be part of the team that had the honor of accepting Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of The Year Award on behalf of Perficient. This was a great honor! Thank you to Microsoft, our clients & partners for sharing in […]

Connected Health Communities – Part 1

Facebook. Twitter. Ning. Blogging. MySpace. PHR. LinkedIn. Patient Portals. Web Enabled. Yahoo! Health. CaringBridge OMG!! What are healthcare organizations to do? Online communication and interaction has grown significantly in the last 5 years. Our patients are expecting us to communicate and build relationships in the same way they associate with other businesses. Facebook was started […]

Healthcare IT Video Interviews from HIMSS 2010

Last week, a group of Perficient colleagues attended a conference for the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS). Liza Sisler (@lizasisler, and she also tweets on behalf of @Perficient_HC) connected with several influential social media pioneers in Healthcare IT prior to the conference and was able to gain time with four individuals to shoot […]

Provider Healthcare Analytics: Driving Quality Outcome Measurements

Last week, we hosted a popular webinar on healthcare analytics. In this broadcast, our healthcare IT practice team discussed why healthcare analytics matters to progressive health systems and took a look at some of the market-leading healthcare analytics products and their associated architectures. We’ve posted the slides on SlideShare and wanted to share them with […]

Who we’re following in Healthcare IT on Twitter

This week, we have a large team of Perficient consultants and experts attending the HIMSS conference in Atlanta. As an IT consulting services provider, we partner closely with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and others who are extremely active in IT solutions for the healthcare industry. In honor of the social media focus the conference […]