I work with a number of healthcare clients that work to enable patients around the topic of preventive medicine. They offer valuable information on their public website and portal. They also venture out into the world of social media with the mission of increasing care, and reducing costs, through ensuring that disease stops before it […]
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You talkin’ to me? Patients & Shared Decision Making
Even the most motivated patients do not always know how to better their health. The journey through personal health can be one wrought with anxiety and intimidation. The messaging is not always clear, and the direction provided by clinicians is not always easily understood. So, in a healthcare industry that is welcoming patients into the […]
Business Requirements – WARNING Write your Own
The title of this post gives away the final outcome, but the advice should be heeded when writing requirements. Requirements are a list of desires, functions and a vision on how an application should work. If there is not the staff to write requirements it would be wise to hire a firm that will assist […]
Collecting Data from the Every Day Lives of Patients
At the Connected Health Symposium last week I attended a session entitled “Listening in the Moment: Project HealthDesign Opens the Window on the Every-day Lives of Patients” by leading healthcare informaticist Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD (@pattifbrennan). She presented information collected by Project HealthDesign with regard to the unstructured data patients collect about their health. […]
Implementation Challenges: What is BI?
A common need and challenge experienced by many organizations in the delivery of a BI solution is that while the desire for information is great, it is difficult to get those with the desire to articulate what their need really is. This can include what they plan do with the information once they have it, […]
Agile Methodology Success: Avoid having too many hands in the pot
When we think of the agile software development method Scrum, we think of a fast-paced process that includes working on multiple phases at the same time with a small team completing a software tool over multiple “sprints.” These sprints last one to four weeks and are dependent on the daily communication between the team members […]
Perficient Recognized for work with Premier health alliance
This week at IBM’s Information On Demand 2012 conference in Las Vegas, Perficient received the Integration Excellence Award. This recognition was a result of work with Premier healthcare alliance and IBM in developing and delivering PremierConnect, a technology platform that houses the largest virtual healthcare community in the country. From the press release: With increasing […]
EMR adoption doesn’t have to hurt a bit
I have blogged about change a few times already. This is a pretty important topic as it relates to healthcare reform and technology adoption. It can be summed up in a single sentence: Change is coming. Physicians don’t have time for change. Nurses don’t have time for change. Administrators don’t have time. Everyone in the […]
Online Behavior of Healthcare Consumers: From WebMD to Twitter
The rate of consumers using social media in their healthcare journey is growing exponentially. A recent survey shows that consumers looking at health information online, and they’re using various sources to do so. Consumers are looking to the web not only for clinical information and guidance, but also for support communities. In many industries, mobile […]
Patient Safety and Transparency: My experience as a parent, not a physician
I recently had the opportunity to experience healthcare from a different point of view. My daughter had an emergency appendectomy, which forced me to navigate the healthcare system from the other side. As an Emergency Physician, I am used to quickly synthesizing data to care for my patients and make decisions that affect their lives. […]
Data Management Activities that are Critical to Trustworthy Data
Being able to trust data is of course important for decision makers. We may even say we have trusted data. Even if the data is trusted by decision makers – how certain are you that it should be trusted? If we slap a label on something and call it “trusted” data without paying the true […]
Changes in Healthcare From An Industrial Perspective
As the efforts to optimize efficiency while enhancing quality of patient care proliferates through many layers of regional, national, and international healthcare delivery systems, the industry as a whole can begin to develop parallel scenarios to assist in this process. This can include a comparison to other industries that have witnessed similar growth expansion dynamics […]