Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

I was intrigued to review the entries for the New York eHealth Collaborative Portal Contest. Why would a physician be interested in patient portal design anyway? There are numerous reasons. First of all, I am fascinated by smart, eye-catching designs. Secondly, I believe that usability is directly related to design and this could significantly further […]

My colleague, Lesli Adams, is a regular blogger on Perficient’s Oracle technologies blog. As the Director of Oracle Healthcare Business Intelligence, she often posts about topics that are also relevant in the healthcare world. She recently posted a blog about Clinical Measurement that would be a good read for those interested in healthcare analytics, below: […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have spoken: October 1, 2014 remains the deadline for ICD-10 transition. Counting on another one-year extension is no longer a viable strategy, and delaying implementation can cause your organization to miss out on the cost and care improving benefits. While ICD-10 implementation can be challenging and places new […]

As healthcare delivery systems are currently engaged in updates and integration of regulations and standards in adherence with Federal and State guidelines, we can begin to address the core perspective of the required strategy. It is common during all relevant discussions of the modeling of the new healthcare delivery system to focus on core strategy […]

In the Big Data Stack below, security is a vertical activity touching upon all aspects of a Big Data architecture which must receive careful attention, especially in a healthcare environment when PHI may be involved. NoSQL technologies, which many Big Data platforms are built upon, are still maturing technologies where security is not as robust […]

The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]

Earlier this week Phil Fasano, EVP & CIO at Kaiser Permanente, wrote a blog post posing the question: If other industries have proven that IT can improve processes and reduce costs, why has healthcare been so slow to adopt? Phil’s post discusses the current state of healthcare IT as well as what entrepreneurs can focus […]

In my last blog post a few months back I introduced some key concepts of data governance and the necessity of healthcare organizations to establish a data governance program as a way to perform quality control on its data. We touched on the 10 universal components of data governance that the Data Governance Institute (DGI) […]

Healthcare organizations need to better understand the factors leading patients to make hospital visits in the first place and then effectively treat those issues in the first visit. Predictive analytics allows healthcare organizations to do just this by managing chronic conditions, engaging patients in their own care, and identifying factors that make readmission likely. Perficient […]

Each of us has a vision of our ideal self, our own “real world superhero” that we wish to become. We could be this superhero if only we got enough sleep, ate the right food, put in a good work out every day, and regulated our mood. The optimal way to level up and reach […]

Next week Perficient will be hosting a webinar focusing on patient engagement leveraging Oracle technology. The webinar, Transforming Healthcare through Patient Engagement Using Oracle Solutions, will be hosted by Perficient’s Melody Smith Jones, Manager of Healthcare Collaborative Technologies, and Lesli Adams, Director of Oracle BI and Healthcare. I spoke with Melody and Lesli to find […]

As I have written before, I currently see several physicians who do NOT use an EMR in the office. They are awesome diagnosticians, people and mentors but they have not taken the leap to the electronic health world. Now, add in two hospital networks that do NOT have patient portals for accessing my records and […]