Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

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 […]

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 […]

This question has crossed my mind numerous times since I read about the Blue Button Co-Design Challenge last month. The Blue Button Co-Design Challenge is being used to give patients and patients by proxy a voice in how they access health data and how they want to then use it. Real patients for product feedback […]

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 […]

IBM announced yesterday their Cloud Suites for the C-Suite.  CRN also ran an article on it where they dive into the implications of it rather than the detail of “more than 100 offerings in the Cloud” that IBM delivers.  I like the following quotes: While CIOs and IT managers are often making cloud technology decisions, […]

Sometimes social media is too popular for its own good. The fun and frivolity of finding Mini Oreo Peppermint Cheesecakes on Pinterest (that exists) or figuring out what the Official Grumpy Cat is up to on Facebook (he exists too) often get in the way of conversations regarding the real collaboration problems faced by the […]

The Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit 2013 provided an intriguing panel discussion called  “The Mobile Workspace – Connect, Share, Collaborate and Collide.”  The attendees included  Ken Parmelee – mobile and wireless, Karen Hobert – security and risk strategy consultant, Mike Gotta – social software analyst  and Daryl Plummer of Gartner.  The discussion was lively […]

Live blogging from the Gartner summit in San Diego, CA Engaging at the nexus of Social, Mobile, Information and Cloud.  Innovation supports a new reality. The threat to China is the 3D printer and the reality is innovation is around us that are trivial and some that are game changing.  They need to be in […]

Whatever industry you work in, whatever your department or area of expertise, cloud computing has established its presence. From retail to banking, from travel & hospitality to healthcare, organizations are using the cloud. And businesses are implementing cloud applications in functional areas from sales & marketing, to human resources, accounting, and enterprise resource management. Growth […]

I’m always pleased when I see a company living up to its own hype. For the past few years, IBM has really been pushing the “social business” agenda. They have a lot of bloggers writing about techniques and tools for making your business more social. One of my favorite books on social media and social […]

  The SOCIAL story continues to evolve for Microsoft. In particular the social story related to Microsoft Dynamics CRM continues to evolve. Help accelerate your success with social: In 2012 Microsoft Dynamics CRM (CRM) introduced its own internal social networking components to allow users to connect and share unstructured but useful data throughout the enterprise. […]

Anthony Myers posted an article on CMS Wire with results of McKinsey & Company’s latest survey about the use of social tools inside corporations.  I highly respect McKinsey & Company, so I want to pass this information along.  The main results are shown in the image here.