The past year was very busy for the Perficient Healthcare team, and our blog reflects the time and hard work our group has put in. Throughout a year of healthcare reform, regulations implementation, and numerous deadline changes, we’ve worked to keep our subscribers in the loop. As we start another busy year, here is a […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthit’
Gamification: Playing a Game to learn how to create one?
At Perficient, we have been focusing on using gamification in healthcare applications to improve the patient engagement experience and help consumers of healthcare enjoy the experience more. One of the challenges of gamification of a mobile healthcare application or creating a social media community experience is designing the game and the interaction process with the […]
Business Requirements – Quality Sources
In any project venture, large or small, a list of requirements is must be obtained from a targeted area. People are the main resources for information regarding a project. Requirement details are only as good as the sources information is obtained from, thus the SME. SME, Subject Matter Expert, is a title normally associated with […]
Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – December 2012
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 […]
5 Important Provider Directory Considerations
I’ve had the great fortune of working on a number of public websites for healthcare providers this year. I’ve noticed a recurring trend. Beyond traffic derived from those patients attempting to connect with the patient portal, the provider directory tool is the most oft visited locale on a provider website. Many healthcare organizations are responding […]
Changes in Healthcare – Utilization of Common Methodologies
As healthcare receives a matrix of needs, and standards in transformation in systems deliver modeling and clinical efficiency, we can introduce the paradigm of focused stages of design, development, and implementation. While incorporating similarities from other processes, such as software development and project management methodology, healthcare can benefit by modeling with these strategies included. This […]
Getting Started with EDI Data Troubleshooting
If you are doing EDI, at one time or another you have had to troubleshoot why your data is being rejected. This article deals with just a simple error received and how to find the solution. Sometimes it is easier than you think. This particular error came as an XML message. I am only going […]
Angry Docs: A Mission to Conquer Meaningful Use Requirements
Who would have imagined ten years ago that many of us would spend hours using a slingshot to fling hacked off birds on a single mission to destroy arrogant pigs? We do this using computers smaller than our dinner plates while sitting on airplanes, park benches, the family room sofa, and sometimes at work. For […]
Perficient’s Big Data Stack – The Application Tier
In my last blog posting, I introduced Perficient’s Big Data Stack in order to provide a framework for a Big Data environment. The stack diagram below has two key vertical tiers – the application tier and the infrastructure tier. I will discuss the application tier in this article. Figure 1 – Perficient’s Big Data Stack […]
Passionate for healthcare technology
In my last blog, I talked about technology being disruptive for the healthcare industry. Since then, I found another article that takes it a bit further. Valve, an online gaming company, has pushed disruption in the software industry to new levels. They are disruptive. Valve helped change the gaming industry from distributing boxed items to […]
3 ways Cognitive Computing could change Business Intelligence
After reading Fast Company’s article on how IBM’s Watson is learning its way to save lives, there was a moment where I wondered if IBM’s claim of Watson being the first machine of the third wave of computing, called cognitive computing, might impact the current rapidly growing market for traditional business intelligence, especially in healthcare. […]
Portal, Predictive Analytics and Transparency to Improve Health
In a perfect world, human beings would have little need for the Emergency Department except for trauma, critical illness and emergent conditions. Primary Care Physicians would manage their patients proactively, thus eliminating the need for chronic care management, non-emergent care and routine care management in our overburdened Emergency Departments. Unfortunately, we currently have a dichotomy […]