Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’

People wanting to be and feel healthy isn’t anything new, but with all that’s happened over the last year with COVID-19, consumers have an increased focus on health and wellness. A recent survey estimates the global wellness market at more than $1.5 trillion with an annual growth of 5-10%. Quite the healthy outlook if you […]

On Jan. 1, 2021, new guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services went into effect requiring hospitals that operate in the United States to provide “clear, accessible pricing information” online for the services they provide. Hospitals have a choice in how they provide this information, and the experience varies widely from hospital to […]

Nonprofits that revolve around health and wellness are always popular and widely supported around the holidays. Almost every person in the United States knows someone who has been affected by illnesses similar to cancer, ALS, MS, or heart disease. According to cancer.gov, in 2018 there were 18.1 million new cases of cancer and over 9 […]

Perficient Promises the Chance to Give Back At Perficient, colleagues are uniquely positioned to deliver meaningful experiences and make a collective impact on our clients, communities, and one another. Together with our partners, clients, and colleagues, we’re constantly pursuing progress, and we’re committed to advancing our organization, our communities, and our future leaders. Supporting Rebuilding […]

This mini-series is about using Power Platform to help streamline healthcare providers’ work and increase patient safety. Part 2 of this mini-series covered using Power Automate to extract lab result values from a response object and used them to check which entity conditions are true and send them to the Power App. Part 1 covered […]

In 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released the CMS Final Rule, which puts patients first by giving them access to their health information when they need it, in a way they can best use it. Payers that deal with federal healthcare […]

This mini series is about using Power Platform to help streamline the work of healthcare providers and increase patient safety. Part 1 of this mini series covered how to set up your database – creating entity tables to store the list of directions and the list of conditions, and relating the two tables with a […]

This series is about using Power Platform to help streamline the work of healthcare providers and increase patient safety.  In this tutorial there will be 2 entity tables – one for storing all the directions and one for storing the condition sets that each direction will be pulled by. The key to joining these two tables […]

The purpose of this miniseries is to build an app for healthcare providers to be able to view a patient’s lab results and immediately see a list of next steps or directions for patient care. To do this, we will build a Power App that takes in the patient’s name and displays that patient’s lab […]

As of January 1st, 2021, Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, CHIP, and plans on the federal Exchange beginning in 2012 are required to support a standardized FHIR API.  Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a standard for exchanging electronic health records that is easier to implement as it uses current API technology. This standard facilitates interoperation for legacy systems, allowing for a […]

Healthcare leaders have access to more healthcare data and technology than ever before allowing them to transform patient and member care. A one-size-fits-all-approach doesn’t work anymore and we’re being challenged to do more through personalized medicine. In season 1 episode 2 of the Intelligent Data Podcast, host Arvind Murali and his guest Juliet Silver, Perficient’s […]

Late night Twitter scrolling. Feels like my consumption has risen exponentially this past year. Anyone else? But a series of tweets (and linked articles published on KFF.org and JAMA Network) from Kaiser Family Foundation’s Executive VP for Health Policy Larry Levitt recently caught my attention. In them, he shares predictions for Biden’s post-inauguration impacts on […]