Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

As shown in a recent Forrester report, the health insurance industry faces a great deal of discontent from consumers. Of the 13 industries tracked by Forrester, health plans rank dead last in consumer experience. At the same time, the market for individual insurance coverage is growing. Reform will continue to accelerate this growth. In this […]

The other day I went to take my kids to Michigan Adventure, and, of course, they loved everything from the coasters to the go cart races. And, of course, they had the usual park fare, a plate of cheese that appeared to have some nachos sprinkled in and a hot pretzel with enough salt to […]

A colleague of mine recently slipped me a copy of “A Web 2.0 Model for Patient-Centered Health Informatics Applications” by Mark Weitzel, Andy Smith, Scott de Deugd, and Robert Yates of IBM. I learned two things as a result of this gesture: 1) my colleagues know me very well and 2) web and social technologies […]

Social media means big business for a lot of brands.  Many companies jump into social media outlets with great gusto and litter the place with ethusiastic diatribes about how great they are.  They release tweets with no greater value proposition than “try our great product now”, and then they wonder why their social media efforts are not […]

Forrester has just released The Forrester Wave for Mobile Collaboration, which does a very good job of highlighting who the leaders are in this market.  The image below shows the Forrester Wave; you can access the full report at forrester.com. What is interesting is that the report includes only those companies that have native applications […]

As a social media specialist, I have a professional obligation to jump on board when a new platform launches. But I was skeptical of Google+. Did I really need a new social presence? I was already experiencing a little personal-brand social fatigue. But while researching Google+, something amazing happened—the circles got me. I couldn’t stop […]

Here at Perficient, we love getting social in healthcare technology. Last February our first edition of Getting Started in Social Media for Health IT was released during the week of HIMSS and became one of our most popular white papers to date. This white paper was the perfect antidote for those eager to dip their […]

Technologies such as mobile health, telehealth, and social portal solutions are making great waves in healthcare organizations around the world. Gone are the days where a patient needed to go to the doctor’s office to get important care. As uses for these technologies increase, and this data is integrated across the care continuum, the Healthcare […]

It is no secret that the role of social media in health care continues to evolve and be better defined. As health care professions begin to venture into this new space many red flags and warnings are being issued. Dr. Brian Vartabedian of the Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine and collegues from the Mayo […]

Does your organization collaborate around its data? TIBCO Spotfire has a great recent blog post all about “Social Business Intelligence”, indicating that your organization’s BI can become more social in the following ways. Make meetings about business intelligence more collaborative: Include data visualizations to get better use out of your company’s data. Mark Lorion, Spotfire’s VP […]

So it probably seems kind of odd that a portal and collaboration blog would blog about using a blog post for content marketing. In a way it almost seems crass. But hear me out, Tom Pisello mentions various ways to get the most bang for your buck which includes the use of content derivatives and […]

I attended a webinar today entitled “Can Social Media Save Lives?”. This webinar was organized by the HealthWorks Collective. While a good portion of the agenda rehashed commonly used statistics about the use of social media in healthcare and the fact that there is still a lot of confusion about social media as a tool […]