Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’

Dr. Marcie Stoshak-Chavez, Healthcare Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on using IBM’s Watson to diagnose and treat patients. I have to admit that I was jealous when I read that my alma mater and “old training grounds,” Case Western Reserve and the Cleveland Clinic, were engaging IBM’s Watson to further clinical diagnosis, […]

You can see my other posts on what is a Patient Portal here. While not the most complex aspect of a patient portal, personalization may well prove the most important.  When I talk to hospitals about their portals, they all speak of one thing, the need to drive people to their site and the need […]

Continuing on with the series on what is a patient portal, I want to talk about integration.  This represents a large effort for any true patient portal.  By integration I mean, the effort and services necessary to pull data and complete transactions to one or more back end systems.  In other words, a patient portal […]

Today I’ll continue with a related theme to yesterday’s discussion on regulation.  Specifically, a patient portal is secure.  You can interpret security in a variety of ways but let me give my own spin. The data is secure The access point is secure Setup is secure The system will track anything that happens on the […]

So this is the first true part of what is a patient portal. I introduced it yesterday but that was only to pave the way for the topics.  Remember, my purpose is to define the complexities of a portal and not the features and functions.  So on to the subject at hand. A lot has […]

I’ve been working on a variety of portals this year but Patient Portal tops them all right now in terms of interest and effort.   I’ve learned that patient portals represent some of the most complex portal sites out there today.   They are complex for a variety of reasons.  This and my next few […]

“Sustaining a broad portfolio of service lines may no longer be a viable option for hospitals and health systems”. 1 According to HFMA’s recent financial planning newsletter, discussing the viability of a service line can be difficult for healthcare executives, board members and clinical leaders. The article encourages an analysis many metrics that need to […]

Obviously there’s a lot of excitement going on with the upcoming release of Xbox One.  Ryan Duclos has a new post out about it’s potential outside of gaming and entertainment which frankly is where my mind lies as well.  In my portal world, I seem to spend about 50% of my time with healthcare clients […]

It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise.  From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]

Effective September 30th If your organization is currently running IBM Cognos Software version 8.0-8.4 these versions will soon be retired and no longer maintained by IBM. This means your production issues and bug fixes will no longer be supported for these following versions: Cognos Business Intelligence V8.4.1 Cognos Data Manager V8.4.1 Cognos Business Intelligence Analysis […]

The healthcare industry pressures and technology maturity are starting to converge, and as they do the organizations that are equipped to capture data, integrate and analyze it from multiple systems will be able to generate greater insights that will drive a shift from volume-based to value-driven healthcare that improves consumer engagement and care delivery. IBM […]

Healthcare IT News’ Erin McCann recently reported that Oregon Health & Science University had to again notify patients that their protected health information had been compromised.  From Erin’s post The Oregon Health & Science University has notified 3,044 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several residents and physicians-in-training inappropriately used Google […]