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Healthcare Games Aren’t for Everyone
This morning, I read an article called “Stop playing games with healthcare” about gamification being “a buzzy word, not a real fix” for healthcare. The author, Ryan Bradley, sat in on a case...
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Kevin Orbaker, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post about the challenges that Healthcare.gov has been facing and provides three take-a-ways that are important for every software...
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Using Hashtags for Cancer Care
Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on how we can use hashtags to help make cancer information more searchable for those that need it. Over on Symplur.com, Dr. Michael Katz...
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Disruption caused by Data Governance?
Instituting Data Governance is a major initiative providing a significant opportunity to leverage enterprise data assets more effectively. As such, there is sometimes concern about being seen as a...
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Healthcare’s Communication Bridge
It is commonly accepted that successful integration and update of healthcare information systems with clinical management will entail bridging communication between medical professional and technical...
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How OS Mavericks Indirectly Impacted Healthcare
A few weeks ago, Apple announces the free upgrade to OS Mavericks. My neighbor upgraded immediately and everything was working fine. Until today. Prior to his endocrinologist appointments each quarter,...
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10 Mobile Health Apps for Doctors
The FDA’s recent ruling on monitoring mobile medical applications tells us something: there are so many health apps on the market that the FDA has to focus on approving only those which are using...
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Two Keys to Success for Healthcare
Healthcare reform, ACA, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Portals, predictive analytics, pay for performance, the Triple Aim, total cost of care, patient safety….these, and many more, are the...
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Texting Bridges the Mobile Health Digital Divide
Whether it is real or perceived, the digital divide is often used as an excuse for non-adoption of mobile health. What is the “digital divide” exactly? The term is meant to describe the differences...
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Top 5 Technology Trends in Healthcare – November 2013
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...
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Identity and the Internet of Things – Lessons for Healthcare
Attending Dreamforce in San Francisco last month, I was reminded of an article I read in All Things Digital about the role of Identity and the Internet of Things. Apparently Marc Benioff,...
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The Value in Voice-Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
Guilty! I text while I drive…eek! I know, I know, it is really bad and those anti-texting and driving commercials get me too. That is why I am making a concentrated effort to ease up this one vice...
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The Multicultural Effect on the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry in the United States is entering an intense, intricate, complex, and dynamic period of growth and modification. Many of the modifications have not been implemented for a...
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A Wish List for Data Modeling Technology
I was recently a panelist for a Dataversity webinar/discussion focused on the future of data modeling tools, functionality, and practice. Given the holiday season, the panelists discussed their wish...
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Swallowing Sensors Gives New Meaning to the Quanitifed Self
You’ve heard of wearables in healthcare technology, but have you considered swallowables? Swallowing a piece of electronics is something that people are actually willing to try. Forrester Research’s...
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5 Reasons Big Data Improves Personalization of Medicine
I enjoyed an article today in IT Business Edge about the ways that Big Data is improving outcomes. We hear that all the time, right? But what does it really mean? Why does more (and better) patient...
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Perficient’s Top 5 Healthcare IT Blog Posts of 2013
It’s been an amazing year of breakthroughs and challenges in the Healthcare IT space. Let’s take a look back at our 5 most popular blog posts of 2013: 7 Healthcare Ideas for Google Glass – Martin...
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Your 2014 Health & Wellness App-Pack | 5 Top Wellness Apps
Almost half of all Americans make New Year’s Resolutions and only about 8% actually meet their goals. If you are sticking with the masses this year and resolving to lose weight, here is a complete...
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Connected Health Trend Countdown: #10 M&A Meets Engagement
Connected Health is that always dynamic space where we connect patients, providers, insurers, and the health community at large in an effort to deliver quality care that is not confined to the mere 1%...
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Massachusetts launches important next phase of HIE
Today, Masachusetts moved into phase 2 of a very important Health Information Exchange (HIE) project. It’s called Mass HIway Health Information Exchange, and it was announced at Beth Israel Deaconess...
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