Healthcare CIO Series: Interviews with David Chou, CIO I am teaming up with CIO David Chou (@dchou1107), an executive with more than 13 years of experience in the healthcare industry to bring you a series of blog posts that provide a unique perspective on some of the healthcare industry’s biggest trends and challenges. David has […]
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Precision Medicine: A Highlight At Dreamforce 2015
As many of you know, Perficient has a practice devoted to Salesforce.com solutions. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that a bunch of my colleagues are at this year’s Dreamforce event and furiously blogging about what they’re hearing. One of the posts that caught my attention was from Mike Porter, who sat in Dr. […]
Using Commerce to Enhance the Patient Experience
Recently, my colleague Heather Bowman, Marketing Manager, IBM Commerce and Digital Experience at Perficient published a blog post featuring Tienda Diabetes. Tienda Diabetes, a leading healthcare provider in Mexico has began using commerce to provide a more personalized healthcare approach for their patients with diabetes. Leveraging commerce, Tienda Diabetes will be able to provide patients […]
3 Recommendations For Moving Precision Medicine Forward
Since President Obama’s State of the Union address in January, much has been said about precision medicine. And, rightly so. The ability to treat common and rare diseases based on genomic and patient data is showing incredible promise. However, the medical community agrees that significant changes need to be made to federal healthcare policies […]
Empowering Patients: Engaging Beyond the Traditional Care Setting
Consumerism is changing how we interact with our care providers. Connecting patients more closely to care providers is especially important after discharge from a facility. My colleague Melody Smith Jones @melsmithjones shared an e-Patient petition to the ONC in her whitepaper Patient 360: The Complete View of Patient Engagement that stated “Nothing would result in […]
Talk To The Hand: Pharma Wins Freedom Of Speech Case
In May, I wrote about how pharmaceutical companies were attempting to stop the FDA from banning the promotion of drugs for off-label uses. According to an Amarin press release issued on August 7, 2015, a United States District Court sided with the pharmaceutical company, saying that they “…may promote to healthcare professionals certain uses […]
The State of Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management
Digital is reshaping industries and healthcare is not immune to digital transformation. The rise of consumerism has created an environment where patients expect to be involved in their treatment and treatment options throughout their entire journey. The most efficient and cost-effective way to connect with patients is through digital technology. Healthcare consumers are becoming advocates […]
Oracle Recognizes Perficient with Health Sciences Award
Oracle’s Health Sciences Global Business Unit has chosen Perficient, a Platinum-level Oracle partner, as the winner of its 2015 Partner Excellence Award. This honor recognizes partners who deliver innovative uses for Oracle technology and deploy successful, groundbreaking solutions using best practices for the life sciences and healthcare industries. Perficient has driven digital transformation initiatives for […]
15 Health IT Standards and Interoperability Rockstars to Know
Health IT Standards and Interoperability Rockstars to Know from Perficient, Inc. Health IT standards and health information interoperability are at the forefront of the healthcare industry. There are many challenges, unanswered questions and interested parties when it comes to the development of health IT standards and interoperability in healthcare. While advocates and leaders of standards […]
How Kaiser Permanente Serves More Patients With Less Resources
Healthcare is undergoing a seismic change in the way traditional institutions think about healthcare delivery. From consumer-driven loyalty programs and social listening to telehealth and wellness programs, disruptive technologies are leading the transformation. Telehealth, once reserved for the chronically ill, is now being used to drive increased revenue by creating services that scale beyond traditional […]
Healthcare Marketing – The Keys To Engagement: Crawl.Walk.Run.
At a recent Chicago Healthcare Marketing Summit, Jason Rushforth, Oracle Vice President of Industry Solutions for Mobile, Display and Marketing talked about the keys to healthcare marketing. His overall message was that marketers in healthcare need to crawl, walk and then run as fast as possible, because somewhere someone is running faster than you are! […]
Microsoft HDInsight Joins the BAA for HIPAA Compliance
For those who would like to take advantage of HDInsight — Microsoft’s Azure-based Hadoop service — but have had concerns regarding compliance and security, this news is for you. HDInsight is now part of Microsoft’s Azure compliance BAA for HIPAA. In fact, Azure as a whole — including Storage and Azure SQL services — are now […]