Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’

As we mentioned in an earlier post about Tracking a Single Patient in a Connected Healthcare Environment, the key to making an integrated healthcare system work is identifying and managing a unique patient identifier that can be used to connect one patient across a diverse network of care providers. In this post we are going […]

The one-to-one communication solutions provided by CRM have been the answer to an increasing number of issues faced by the healthcare industry. CRM can be used to improve care delivery, lower costs, and increase loyalty among the key stakeholders most necessary to organizational success. This is particularly true in light of the growing physician shortage, […]

Yesterday Perficient’s portal experts held a webinar entitled “12 Things You Should NOT Do on a Portal Project”. The webinar was highly entertaining. You can view the entire webinar here. Considering the growth of social media, collaborative care, and patient engagement in healthcare, I felt it was important to recap the 12 things not to […]

I attended a webinar today entitled “Can Social Media Save Lives?”. This webinar was organized by the HealthWorks Collective. While a good portion of the agenda rehashed commonly used statistics about the use of social media in healthcare and the fact that there is still a lot of confusion about social media as a tool […]

As any CIO knows, any organizational change, badly managed, can lead to whining and revolt. However, as shown in our earlier post, “How the Healthcare CIO Saves Lives” the benefits of successfully implementing IT initiatives like Business Process Management can be profound. In many cases we are talking about the difference between life and death. […]

There are many benefits to Health IT, but when it comes to these business drivers there is one that leads the charge: increased efficiency. The motivation to increase efficiency is on the lips of healthcare executives in both provider and health plan circles across the nation. Controlling and being aware of the cost of care […]

Sometimes when I write about social media in healthcare I imagine a make-believe healthcare technology purist that I’ve conjured up rolling her eyes at me. She scoffs at my adding to the zettabytes of digital data on one of the more “softball” technology topics. What does social media have to do with “real” healthcare technology […]

We were at the AHIP conference last week, and as shown in our earlier posts, we learneda lot at this year’s event. The health insurance industry is at a point of tremendous evolution, and there are a lot of factors to consider. Here are a few of the key themes that we took away from […]

We are in San Francisco this week at the America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Conference. This is a great event, and there are a lot of conversations going on among conference attendees. One hot topic from our AHIP Trend Watch post is the pressure health insurers are under with regards to Utilization Management. Utilization Management […]

We all remember when IBM’s Watson beat the two all time grand champions of Jeopardy (if you don’t then see the video above). However, as Watson moves into various industries we wonder what Watson would look like in the healthcare industry. Today we got the answer to that question from Randall Wilcox of IBM at […]

We are at the AHIP Conference this week, which is one of our favorite events of the year. It is good fun to meet with the many tech-savvy professionals that make up the health insurance industry. This year we meet as many regulatory pressures and deadlines are closing in, which is certain to ignite some […]

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 […]