Join us Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 12:00 p.m. CT for the Perficient Webinar “How to Protect Patient Data in an Increasingly Social Healthcare Industry.” Register now! The role of the patient within the healthcare industry is evolving. The growth in more collaborative healthcare models is being driven by a massive and growing group of […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’
Requirements: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Welcome to 2012, a new year of projects and a good time to discuss the topic of requirements. With the advent of any project, there are foundational constraints a project is assembled to communicate an end purpose. Healthcare organizations are finding themselves swamped with IT projects these days. Many are grabbling with EHR, ICD-10, Business […]
ICD-10 Systems Remediation: The Countdown is on
In preparation for satisfying the ICD-10 medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding on October 1, 2013, Healthcare organizations will need to indentify all instances of ICD-9 codes that are maintained within the application logic of supporting business systems as a component of their ICD-10 Compliance Agenda. Impacted systems will include, but are not limited to, […]
Data Governance and Data Stewardship – keys to successful enterprise data initiatives
When embarking on enterprise data initiatives, such as Meaningful Use, BI or supporting the conversion to ICD-10, success is very often correlated to the degree of business involvement. For enterprise data initiatives, there are three types of business (here meaning non-IT) involvement required: Stakeholder involvement (these, of course, are the people for whom we are […]
8 Step Plan for Designing Meaningful Healthcare Analytics Dashboards
Provider Institutions (hospitals, medical centers and other health systems) are currently at a crossroads when considering how to best represent clinical and business information in a meaningful way that can be understood by all levels of the organization. We find increasing awareness and use of “digital dashboard technology” to provide relevant information to clinicians and […]
It’s Time to Get Real…
…Real-time analytics, that is. One of the challenges in healthcare today is the lag in time for the acquisition, storage, analysis and delivery of data back to the physician or other healthcare provider for decision-making. The majority of transactional information about a patient that is produced on reports or presented in terms of business intelligence […]
Key to Successful ICD-10 Transition Begins with the Impact Assessment
It is no surprise that many healthcare organizations have not yet begun planning for the highly anticipated ICD-10 transition. Many believe that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will postpone the October 1, 2013, deadline, allowing for some wiggle room in implementation. Unfortunately the likelihood of that happening is slim to none. To date, […]
Is it Time to Embrace ICD-10?
A recent post by ICD-10 Watch sums up the ICD-10 struggle well: “ICD-10 coding is a tough sell” and “great healthcare is in the data”. Weinberger points out that providers are stretched to their limits with the many other healthcare reforms and feel like the benefits of adopting ICD-10 simply aren’t there. However, the ICD-10 […]
Ask the Expert: The Successes and Pitfalls of Healthcare Portal Implementation
Michael Porter is a Principal at Perficient for Portal, Social, and Collaboration solutions. He leverages 13 years of experience with portal and content management projects to help clients understand and take advantage of the value provided by web technologies. He has supported many multi-million dollar portal implementations for some of the world’s largest companies. Michael […]
2011 Top #HITsm Contributor Awards
Just in time for the season of celebrations, the #HITsm Twitter community, focused on creating discussions on Health IT, has announced its 2011 Top #HITsm Contributors list. The list is broken into Individual Contributors, Organizations and Publications. Perficient Healthcare, under the Twitter handle @Perficient_HC, is proud to be recognized in the Organizations group for its […]
Ask the Expert: How to Create a Successful Mobile Health Gamification Experience
Scott Schnaars is a technology and internet sales, business development and operations professional with a passion for technology, writing & golf. Throughout his career, Scott has held various positions within companies such as Borland, WebEx, Motorola & Yahoo! Currently, Scott is head of sales at Badgeville, the leading behavior management firm, which is a partner […]
Ask the Expert: How to Create the Most Collaborative Healthcare Site in the Nation
Robert Sumner is a Technical Director and leads the Web Content Management (WCM) practice within the National ECM Business Unit at Perficient. As a director, he manages all WCM projects and provides internal strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development for the Practice. He is an expert in the web content management space […]