“Sustaining a broad portfolio of service lines may no longer be a viable option for hospitals and health systems”. 1 According to HFMA’s recent financial planning newsletter, discussing the viability of a service line can be difficult for healthcare executives, board members and clinical leaders. The article encourages an analysis many metrics that need to […]
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Hyperion Healthcare Starter Kit: Changing the Game
If you walk into a Chief Financial Officer’s office in the US and ask if they use “Hyperion”, the answer is likely to be “yes”. Why is this? This solution has innovated to the level of changing the margin trajectory for ~6,000 customers across many industries by automating and innovating capacity planning and financial performance […]
Capacity Planning in Provider Organizations
Healthcare providers are getting pretty good at creating budgets and comparing financial results vs. budgets but just how realistic are these budgets in the first place? Too often enterprise budgets are created with limited insight into the operational data needed to create an accurate picture of the business drivers that affect the financials. This is […]
The Healthcare Debate is now about Finance
HFMA President and CEO Joe Fifer told healthcare finance professionals last week at ANI: The HFMA National Institute. “People want to know why health care costs what it does and what we’re doing about it,” Fifer said. “We need to move beyond the rhetoric.”1 Fifer went on to say that consumers are fed up with […]
Oracle and Salesforce.com Announce New Strategic Partnership
Today Oracle and Salesforce.com unveiled the forging of a new partnership that will align their cloud operations and provide customers flexible application integrations and rapid low-cost implementations. Both Companies Agree to Integrate Salesforce.com and Oracle Clouds From Oracle OPN Press Release, Redwood Shores, Calif. – June 25, 2013 Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM] and Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] announced today a comprehensive […]
Perficient Showcasing Oracle EPM Technologies @ ODTUG KSCOPE13
Perficient Oracle EPM team is in NOLA for the annual ODTUG Kscope13 conference, June 23-27. The conference is tailored to developers, technical architects and business users to gain insights on Oracle technologies and applications including business intelligence, Oracle EPM, Fusion Middleware and Application Express. The conference format and activities provide a vehicle for extensive networking and sharing content around Oracle tools and […]
Enhancing Patient Experience through Financial Transparency
The CEOs of three major hospital systems participated in a round table at the recent conference that I attended to discuss how their organizations are working to improve patient experience. One of the topics that emerged is “financial transparency”. All three disclosed that in their facilities, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) makes regular rounds on […]
Kill that rogue EPMA application
On rare occasion, I encounter an EPMA application that will not offer an option to delete because the process that created it did not complete properly or the application was deleted from the Shared Service registry prior to removing it in the Application Library. This short article describes the process to remove an application from […]
Elevate Your Oracle Knowledge with Perficient @ Collaborate13
Visit Perficient in Denver next week at COLLABORATE13, April 7-11. You’ll be joining us and fellow E-Business Suite, Agile, Hyperion, Siebel, Primavera and other Oracle applications users for a fast-paced week of interactive education sessions, engaging networking opportunities, groundbreaking keynotes and of course one of the main attractions – the Exhibitor Showcase. Perficient team of experts will […]
Perficient & Oracle Talking PCM Strategy for Healthcare Providers
We’re gearing up for our upcoming webinar “A Profitability and Cost Management Strategy for Healthcare Providers” co-hosted by our own Tony Coffman, Director Oracle EPM and William Bercik, Director of Healthcare at Oracle for the Provider industry, on Wednesday, March 27, at 11 a.m. CDT. The webinar will highlight and discuss how leveraging advanced analytics to manage population health, develop risk […]
Using Hyperion Planning’s Export & Import Security Utilities
Hyperion Planning comes pre-packaged with two Utilities that are quite beneficial when the following situations arise: You are creating security for Planning objects in a new application Large quantities of security changes need to be made to an existing application You need a quick way to view security settings for all objects in your Planning […]
Healthcare Clinical and Financial Viability vs. ACO Management
The main factors of evaluation in the sustainability, efficiency, and quality of healthcare delivery systems are clinical management of the patient population in parallel to financial balance and modeling. In more intricate detail, the healthcare industry can examine clinical management in segmentation of acute and chronic care, accuracy in diagnosis, and appropriate time administration of […]