Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Forecasting industry trends is a common theme at the beginning of a new year. PwC’s Health Research Institute recently polled 1,000 adult consumers and highlighted interesting findings for 2012. Some of the key trends noted in this survey were: 52% of consumers surveyed said they would be interested in an insurance plan that covered effective […]

IBM Connections Auditing and Compliance Infrastructure I attended a session with Rene Schimmer, Offering Manager, IBM on Connections auditing and compliance.  As social business continues to grow and become the norm, auditing and compliance becomes more critical, especially in certain industries that are subject to government regulations. Social Business and Compliance There are quite a […]

Here at Lotusphere, IBM has a conference within a conference called IBM Connect. It’s more business oriented with less “geek” going on.  The first speaker was Bridget Van Kralingen, General Manager of IBM North America Note: Great quotes are in bold The most incredible thing about social business is that we are truly in a […]

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 […]

Michael Porter is a Principal at Perficient for Portal, Social, and Collaboration solutions. He leverages 13 years of experience with portal and content management projects to help clients understand and take advantage of the value provided by web technologies. He has supported many multi-million dollar portal implementations for some of the world’s largest companies. Michael […]

Dione Hinchcliffe of the Dachis Group recently published his Top 12 predictions for what will happen to “social business” in 2012. We are seeing all sorts of predictions like these, and I enjoy reading every expert’s predictions in this space. Perficient is heavily involved in social collaboration for businesses with our portal and collaboration practice. […]

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 […]

Robert Sumner is a Technical Director and leads the Web Content Management (WCM) practice within the National ECM Business Unit at Perficient. As a director, he manages all WCM projects and provides internal strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development for the Practice. He is an expert in the web content management space […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

I just read an interesting article about Google Plus as a search ranking tool by Kelvin Newman. He posted it back in July but for it’s age it’s still very interesting.  I’ve wondered myself why Google decided to join the fray and compete against a facebook behemoth that already has the advantage of millions of […]

“People are not built to pay attention.” – Dr. Clifford Nass, Connected Health Symposium 2011 This priceless piece of wisdom was provided during last month’s Connected Health Symposium in Boston. What Dr. Nass successfully communicating to symposium attendees is that while we envision a world where patients are consuming healthcare information in isolation of all […]

Public health is defined as the science of protecting, improving, and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of societies, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals. In one of our most recent white papers, The HIT Trifecta, we highlighted the most important component of managing public health: data. This was done by […]