Posts Tagged ‘healthit’

Healthcare IT News’ Erin McCann recently reported that Oregon Health & Science University had to again notify patients that their protected health information had been compromised.  From Erin’s post The Oregon Health & Science University has notified 3,044 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several residents and physicians-in-training inappropriately used Google […]

Is there such a thing as “disruptive medical education”? Can traditional medical education be infused with technology, techniques and individualized learning such that it creates the next generation of enlightened and empowered physicians? I think so. Years ago, when I was enrolling in medical school at Case Western Reserve University, I felt like I was […]

I’m thrilled to share that for the third time in four years Perficient has been honored with Microsoft’s Health Provider Partner of the Year award.  I can’t tell you how honored we are that the Microsoft Healthcare team has chosen to recognize Perficient’s commitment and expertise in the Healthcare vertical year after year. From the […]

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 […]

Providers and payers need to exchange or source a lot of data, and the rate of this activity will only increase with implementation of Obamacare and other directives. Given the poor state of metadata management (which makes data sharing much more difficult), the decision to incorporate a new data set into an Enterprise Data Warehouse […]

In our new Perficient Perspective, “The Driving Force of Social Media in Healthcare,” Dr. Marcie Stoshak-Chavez discusses the increasingly social world of healthcare. In it, she discusses the value of connecting with patients online – but how do healthcare providers begin to establish this relationship? According to PwC’s Health Research Institute, early a third of […]

It is common practice to develop and assign a visual perspective of the processes and methodologies in organizational change. Can this same approach be applied to the emerging changes of healthcare? An existing example is the food pyramid in describing nutritional foundation. The inherent challenge in developing an applicable visualization in healthcare is applying a […]

Today I heard an airplane defined as a number of parts flying in formation. That is an accurate description of an airplane if your work is to maintain or repair airplanes. But that definition isn’t right for marketing air travel to people who fly as often as I do. I would prefer to know that […]

Each day millions of pieces of information are shared over social platforms. There are over 400 million Tweets and 2.5 billion items shared on Facebook each day – and these are just two of many social networks. Healthcare has not ignored this shift to social and is working towards integrating these various networking channels with […]

In the age of ACOs and value based payments, there is a constant pressure on the healthcare industry to reduce costs without damaging the quality of care provided. While there are many factors in this balancing act, hospital readmissions and lack of medication adherence are two issues driving up costs that can be addressed and […]

In my last blog post we explored the topic of shared decision making (SDM) and its impact on patient safety. This made me think of an experience we recently had with my dad. He had a stent placed about year and a half ago to open a blocked artery in his left anterior descending artery […]

Stress is a killer and each of us struggles with controlling stress in our own way. Often stress relief comes in the form of equally destructive behaviors including over-eating, smoking, watching too much television, etc. As a result, stress is a serious contributing factor to higher healthcare costs in the form of heart attacks, cancer […]