In this video Joel Thimsen of Perficient and Larry Rosen of BCBS of Massachusetts discuss the architecture of the next generation EDI and SOA solution in support of HIPAA 5010 and modernization of Blue Cross middleware infrastructure in support of scaling to next generation capabilities.
Posts Tagged ‘healthcare IT’
White Paper: Could EMR Software be Detrimental to Healthcare?
It goes without saying that electronic medical records is a hot topic in healthcare technology. We are often asked, “What does Perficient do in electronic medical records?” While Perficient does not provide EMR or EHR solutions, interoperability should be top of mind as more and more records become electronic. This is what I was thinking […]
At #IBMExperience This Week: Meaningful Use Requires an Amped Up Web Presence
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 […]
Perficient Podcast: Social Media Transforms Healthcare Delivery
Social Media Transforms Healthcare Delivery Welcome to the first Perficient Podcast! I look forward to using this channel more in the future to open the lines of communication on today’s most important Health IT topics. This podcast is the first in a series of interviews with Dr. Nanette Nuessle. In this interview, we spoke about […]
Physician Insights on Electronic Data
I recently read an article by Dr. S.D. Madduri, called Life With and Without EHRs. Dr. Madduri outlined his journey from paper-based to digital medical records in an edition of Medical Economics published a few months back. I am personally obsessed with end users of healthcare technology. I often find myself asking my own healthcare […]
Healthcare Reform & Physician Loyalty
Last Thursday I spoke in a webinar entitled “Healthcare Reform & Physician Loyalty: What Can CRM Do To Support Accountable Care Organizations (ACO)?”. During this presentation I covered physician loyalty and why it has become such a hot topic in light of healthcare reform and increasing trends in physician turnover. Perficient’s Lisa Anderson joined me […]
Data Driven Scorecard Could Cure Health Plan Cost Concerns
A recent HIMSS Analytics white paper showed that using clinical data to decrease costs was a top concern for health plans. Respondents emphasized the importance of becoming more strategic with regard to both individual patient data and data that relates to groups of patients in identified geographies. In comparison to health providers, health plans are […]
Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics
Today I spoke in a webinar entitled “Using Core Measures to Jump-Start Enterprise Analytics”. During this presentation I covered a number of topics around business intelligence in healthcare and specifically around an approach called targeted analytics. I reviewed some of the options available today to healthcare organizations and provided an example of building an enterprise […]
Providers Achieve Financial Effectiveness through Physician Loyalty
It goes without saying that in order to maintain financial viability, healthcare organizations must maintain patient loyalty. There are vast marketing engines in place to capture patient loyalty through the use of portals and other collaborative tools. However, when you take a look at the numbers, such as those published frequently by Gallup, you see […]
Caring for Patients Means Caring for their Master Data
The complexity of medicine and the lack of common standards, practices and clinical vocabularies across the healthcare system makes getting clean clinical data a dirty task. There are many applications across a healthcare system that rely on master data, and a single error can have a far-reaching impact. In many businesses, errors in master data […]
Healthcare and Business Process Management Interview [VIDEO] at IBM Impact
http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=ibmimpact&clip=pla_2a282621-5a2e-4189-a113-20828e700259&color=0x000000&autoPlay=false&mute=false&iconColorOver=0xe7e7e7&iconColor=0xcccccc Trouble viewing? Check out the link to the video here Joel Thimsen, Solution Director at Perficient, was interviewed by Scott Laningham, Host of developerWorks, and Todd “Turbo” Watson, Blogger/Technology Evangelist, at IBM Impact in Las Vegas. Joel outlined Perficient’s 12 year partnership with IBM and some of the key trends he has seen when […]
Healthcare Board of Directors Go Green
We have noticed a pretty significant trend from our healthcare clients. Many healthcare technology teams are getting requests from their board of directors to reduce the paper waste associated with their meetings and provide for a collaborative environment that can connect them across vast geographic boundaries. Collaboration tools, by way of portals, are the solution […]