When I think of data quality, I think of three primary components: data profiling, data correction, and data monitoring. Data profiling is the act of analyzing your data contents. Data correction is the act of correcting your data content when it falls below your standards. And data monitoring is the ongoing act of establishing data […]
Posts Tagged ‘healthit’
The Importance of Being Earnest about Security in Healthcare, Part 1
In Healthcare, we talk about how important security is, all the while secretly hoping and assuming that, as an organization, we’re in compliance and have all the appropriate safeguards in place. When discussing compliance, at the very least this refers to the baseline set by the HIPAA Security Rule and the many contractual obligations we […]
New Perficient White Paper! Healthcare Gamification: Is it Time for Physicians to Prescribe Gaming to Patients?
There is a new buzzword floating about town. That word is “gamification”. So, what is it, and why does it have everything to do with the fastest moving trend in healthcare technology? In their great piece on gamification, Mashable defines the term as “the use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications. The term also suggests […]
The Healthcare Domain Model: Where to start?
Let’s say you are tasked with modernizing an age old payer system with no documentation and it is business critical, with hundreds and thousands of lines of code: where would you start? Evaluation of technology stack, infrastructure, assessing the skill sets available, cost, etc. are all part of standard operating procedure, but we’ll save that […]
Perficient Webinar: How to Protect Patient Data in an Increasingly Social Healthcare Industry
Join us Thursday, January 26, 2012, at 12:00 p.m. CT for the Perficient Webinar “How to Protect Patient Data in an Increasingly Social Healthcare Industry.” Register now! The role of the patient within the healthcare industry is evolving. The growth in more collaborative healthcare models is being driven by a massive and growing group of […]
ICD-10 Systems Remediation: The Countdown is on
In preparation for satisfying the ICD-10 medical diagnosis and inpatient procedure coding on October 1, 2013, Healthcare organizations will need to indentify all instances of ICD-9 codes that are maintained within the application logic of supporting business systems as a component of their ICD-10 Compliance Agenda. Impacted systems will include, but are not limited to, […]
Data Governance and Data Stewardship – keys to successful enterprise data initiatives
When embarking on enterprise data initiatives, such as Meaningful Use, BI or supporting the conversion to ICD-10, success is very often correlated to the degree of business involvement. For enterprise data initiatives, there are three types of business (here meaning non-IT) involvement required: Stakeholder involvement (these, of course, are the people for whom we are […]
8 Step Plan for Designing Meaningful Healthcare Analytics Dashboards
Provider Institutions (hospitals, medical centers and other health systems) are currently at a crossroads when considering how to best represent clinical and business information in a meaningful way that can be understood by all levels of the organization. We find increasing awareness and use of “digital dashboard technology” to provide relevant information to clinicians and […]
It’s Time to Get Real…
…Real-time analytics, that is. One of the challenges in healthcare today is the lag in time for the acquisition, storage, analysis and delivery of data back to the physician or other healthcare provider for decision-making. The majority of transactional information about a patient that is produced on reports or presented in terms of business intelligence […]
Key to Successful ICD-10 Transition Begins with the Impact Assessment
It is no surprise that many healthcare organizations have not yet begun planning for the highly anticipated ICD-10 transition. Many believe that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) will postpone the October 1, 2013, deadline, allowing for some wiggle room in implementation. Unfortunately the likelihood of that happening is slim to none. To date, […]
2011 Top #HITsm Contributor Awards
Just in time for the season of celebrations, the #HITsm Twitter community, focused on creating discussions on Health IT, has announced its 2011 Top #HITsm Contributors list. The list is broken into Individual Contributors, Organizations and Publications. Perficient Healthcare, under the Twitter handle @Perficient_HC, is proud to be recognized in the Organizations group for its […]
Perficient Announces Release of #MeaningfulUse & #ACO #HealthBI Platform
I’m really excited to share that today Perficient announced our Health BI Solution that leverages Gartner Magic Quadrant technologies SQL Server & SharePoint. We’ll be exhibiting at the Georgia HIMSS Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference tomorrow (October 12th) where we’ll be talking about Health BI. You can find us in the Microsoft Pavilion! From […]