Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’

As a healthcare organization, being able to easily locate and capture information is critical when it comes to providing quality patient care and maintaining the financial health of the business. For accountable care organizations (ACOs), managing population health successfully requires the gathering of insights that comes only from a combination of data – data from […]

Last week, we were very fortunate to have one of our customers, Partners In Health (PIH), join us for a webinar. If you are not familiar with PIH, it’s a Boston based non-profit global healthcare organization with a mission to provide a preferential option for the poor in healthcare. PIH works with sister organizations that […]

Many nonprofits (and certainly other organizations as well) would likely share the same sentiment as Partners In Health (PIH) – due to the mission at hand, resource allocation, more often than not, prioritizes the needs of people over systems. It’s not all that surprising that this can lead to disbanded communication systems. Systems that, over […]

  Last month, I wrote about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), such as Express Scripts, cutting exclusive deals with pharmas who are willing to slash prices significantly, saving insurers and patients lots of money, not to mention removing competition from the game. So, what happened? 

David Barnes, Program Director of IBM Strategy, chats with Perficient’s Rick Klein at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference. David and Rick discuss Perficient’s recent IBM Beacon Award win, our Health Analytics Gateway product and the importance of partners in creating comprehensive IBM software solutions for the marketplace.  

  Soon after I published a post on the mention of precision medicine in President Barack Obama’s January 28, 2015 State of the Union address, The White House released additional information on their initiative. The President’s 2016 Budget is set to allocate $215 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Food and Drug Administration […]

We’re excited to announce that Perficient won the 2015 IBM Beacon Award for Outstanding Information Management Solution. Each year, this top honor is awarded to a few elite IBM Business Partners who have delivered exceptional solutions to drive business value and transform the way their clients and industries do business in the future. The 2015 […]

  It was exciting, fast, and, surprisingly, painless. Let me tell you take you back to last week. I got out of my car, walked a few hundred feet, and entered through the glass double doors. Behind the shelves of candy and healthcare products, what do I see? A MinuteClinic. No one was there to […]

Predictive Analytics solutions deal with uncovering insights from trends and patterns to determine the impact of operational adjustments and market forces on your organization. Statistical analysis and predictive modeling expand on the findings gained through business intelligence solutions to answer “What will happen?” given certain business situations. Perficient’s IBM Predictive Analytics practice has seen tremendous […]

OK, maybe that’s an overstatement. But, it’s worth mentioning that President Barack Obama briefly talked about “precision medicine” in his State of the Union address last week. Here’s what he had to say: Twenty-first century businesses will rely on American science and technology, research and development. I want the country that eliminated polio and mapped […]

In our last “cloud fact or fiction” post, we pointed out that hosting your clinical trial software in the cloud gives companies unparalleled access to their data due to high system uptime and ease of access to systems. This time around, we’ll discuss cloud security. Claim #5: Clinical and safety data in cloud systems is not […]

The Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), an academic research hospital designed and founded by Jon Huntsman, Sr., a cancer survivor, well-known businessman, and the father of Utah’s past governor Jon Huntsman, Jr., recently put out a heartwarming commercial that showcases why it’s different from any other cancer treatment center. Aside from the unique look and feel of […]