Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’

More than ever, healthcare happens on the go. For subscribers, the experience means being able to gather information around health needs, keep in touch with health practitioners, and make appointments. Internally, the experience involves getting work done, collaborating, and ensure that a complex system can run smoothly and with as few errors as possible. This […]

Maybe soon, your doctor will be a supercomputer, not a person. The possibility was center stage in San Diego at the inaugural Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH conference, where executives with IBM Watson Health and Athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based healthcare services, debated how far cognitive computing will reach into doctors’ offices. Brainstorm HEALTH, sponsored by Fortune […]

93% of millennials do not go to the doctor for preventative checkups, and more than a quarter are willing to self-diagnose their own sicknesses. When patients go to the doctor so infrequently, how can healthcare professionals provide the consistent and in-depth care needed to keep patients healthy?

Perficient is proud to be exhibiting at CA World 2016, November 14-18 at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. As the premier CA user conference, this year’s event will likely include over 5,000 IT professionals. We hope you’re among those attending this year and that we’ll be able to connect with you during […]

I attended several sessions at Dreamforce this week focused on the Salesforce Health Cloud product and came away impressed by the momentum of this product since its GA release earlier this year at HIMSS in February 2016. Highlights from the sessions are as follows: Health Cloud puts the patient in the center of the care […]

According to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), an average 8,000 baby boomers born between 1946 and 1965 turn 65 years old every day. While this bodes well for vacation planners and retirement homes, healthcare institutions are presented with the challenge of serving this aging yet unique group as they head into the sunset […]

Perficient, a Salesforce Gold Partner and leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000 enterprises, is excited to announce it has received the 2016 Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in Healthcare and Life Sciences for its work with NextGen Healthcare. The Salesforce Partner Innovation Awards are given annually during Dreamforce to honor Salesforce’s consulting partner community […]

Pokémon Go is an example of a mobile app that is experiencing wild success. The global phenomenon, which is now estimated to generate over one million dollars in revenue every day, is making experts in all industries ask, “How can I achieve similar success?” Personally, I think the success of Pokémon Go can be attributed […]

Joshua Newman, Chief Medical Officer hosted the Health and Life Sciences kickoff keynote session at Dreamforce 2016 about how companies are using Salesforce to innovate, make decisions, manage patient and member journeys, and connect the entire healthcare ecosystem. There were a lot of people attending this session, which is an indication of the amount of […]

CHALLENGES ADAPTING TO A CHANGING BUSINESS MODEL Healthcare is undergoing a shift from a fee-for-servicebased payment model to a value-based-care payment model in which the government provides incentives and penalties based on quality metrics. With the value-based care model, healthcare providers and health plans have shared accountabilities when it comes to managing the health of the individuals and populations they […]

CHALLENGES INTEGRATION SYSTEMS AND MANUAL PROCESSES With many disparate systems and data format requirements, integration can pose a huge challenge for healthcare organizations. This can be a deterrent in adopting new systems or integrating existing systems. Lack of integration leads to slow manual processes that cost the business money through resource inefficiency.  Beyond the difficulty around integration […]

CHALLENGES MAKING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF DATA MEANINGFUL  Healthcare data requires high security – but that can also lead to difficulty in sharing information when needed. Interoperability of healthcare data requires a modernized infrastructure to enhance communication and access. With restrictive formats like EDI and HL7, along with the unstructured data generated by wearables and devices, providers and health plans have […]