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	<title>Healthcare IT Blog</title>
	
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	<description>A blog by Perficient providing insights and trends in the enterprise information technology industry for organizations involved in Healthcare: providors, payors, patients, and more.</description>
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		<title>Webinar: Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations &amp; Analytics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Churchill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Join us Wednesday, May 30, at 12:00 PM CDT, for the Perficient webinar, &#8220;Using Big Data for Improved Healthcare Operations &#38; Analytics.&#8221; Register now! Healthcare providers are faced...<br/>
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As a leading provider of services in the healthcare industry, Perficient has delivered both strategic consulting and advanced technology solutions to many of the top provider, payor, life science and government healthcare organizations. Our client list includes a number of notable healthcare organizations including The AMA, BCBS of FL, BJC HealthCare, Broadlane, Cedars-Sinai, Centene, CORHIO (Colorado HIE), Express Scripts, HealthLink, Kaiser Permanente, Lab Corp of America, McKesson, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Virtua Health, and many others. We hope that by sharing our experience with these organizations, we can add value to yours.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Creating the Canonical Modeling Environment – Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 12:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Anderson</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Now that we’ve established what a canonical data model is, let’s talk about our objectives for what we want to achieve with our Canonical Data Model and what toolsets can be applied.  In my Canonical...<br/>
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As a leading provider of services in the healthcare industry, Perficient has delivered both strategic consulting and advanced technology solutions to many of the top provider, payor, life science and government healthcare organizations. Our client list includes a number of notable healthcare organizations including The AMA, BCBS of FL, BJC HealthCare, Broadlane, Cedars-Sinai, Centene, CORHIO (Colorado HIE), Express Scripts, HealthLink, Kaiser Permanente, Lab Corp of America, McKesson, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Virtua Health, and many others. We hope that by sharing our experience with these organizations, we can add value to yours.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>The Marriage of ACOs and Technology</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.perficient.com/healthcare/blog/2012/05/14/the-marriage-of-acos-and-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Buie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Electronic Medical Record]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[ACOs are paving the way for a healthcare payment model that is based on quality and efficiency instead of volume.  They were created as a response to health reform initiatives that focus on improving...<br/>
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As a leading provider of services in the healthcare industry, Perficient has delivered both strategic consulting and advanced technology solutions to many of the top provider, payor, life science and government healthcare organizations. Our client list includes a number of notable healthcare organizations including The AMA, BCBS of FL, BJC HealthCare, Broadlane, Cedars-Sinai, Centene, CORHIO (Colorado HIE), Express Scripts, HealthLink, Kaiser Permanente, Lab Corp of America, McKesson, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Virtua Health, and many others. We hope that by sharing our experience with these organizations, we can add value to yours.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>EHRs, Analytics, Utilization and Population Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Bradshaw</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Spurred on by Meaningful Use, there has been an explosion in the implementation of EHRs over the last several years.  This tidal wave has been sweeping through the healthcare community, sucking up...<br/>
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As a leading provider of services in the healthcare industry, Perficient has delivered both strategic consulting and advanced technology solutions to many of the top provider, payor, life science and government healthcare organizations. Our client list includes a number of notable healthcare organizations including The AMA, BCBS of FL, BJC HealthCare, Broadlane, Cedars-Sinai, Centene, CORHIO (Colorado HIE), Express Scripts, HealthLink, Kaiser Permanente, Lab Corp of America, McKesson, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Virtua Health, and many others. We hope that by sharing our experience with these organizations, we can add value to yours.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Think Social Media and Healthcare don’t mix? WRONG!</title>
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		<comments>http://blogs.perficient.com/healthcare/blog/2012/05/09/think-social-media-and-healthcare-dont-mix-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Jenkins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dan Bowman, in a recent article, quotes a family physician who feels social media has no place in healthcare.  He asserts busy physicians don&#8217;t have time to add yet another technology to their...<br/>
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As a leading provider of services in the healthcare industry, Perficient has delivered both strategic consulting and advanced technology solutions to many of the top provider, payor, life science and government healthcare organizations. Our client list includes a number of notable healthcare organizations including The AMA, BCBS of FL, BJC HealthCare, Broadlane, Cedars-Sinai, Centene, CORHIO (Colorado HIE), Express Scripts, HealthLink, Kaiser Permanente, Lab Corp of America, McKesson, Pfizer, Prime Therapeutics, Virtua Health, and many others. We hope that by sharing our experience with these organizations, we can add value to yours.<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>The Future of US Healthcare: Questions and Concerns, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 12:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jatinder Koharki</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In Part II of this blog series on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), I will explore the following statement: “Adults with pre-existing conditions became eligible to join a...<br/>
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		<title>Don’t use technology to fix a training problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Jenkins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Farzad Mostashari , in a meeting with the National Quality Forum in late April, says, &#8220;In 2016, it&#8217;s going to be rare to find a doctor without EHRs.&#8221;  He went on to say we need to...<br/>
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		<title>BI and SharePoint: A Winning Alliance for Epic EMR [VIDEO]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 15:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Churchill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perficient worked with Meriter Health Services to implement Microsoft Business Intelligence and SharePoint 2010 to work in conjunction with their Epic Electronic Medical Records system. The result of...<br/>
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		<title>EMR Management with SharePoint &amp; Microsoft BI [VIDEO]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Churchill</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Perficient recently paired up with Epic Systems to create the first integration of the two systems in the U.S. for DuPage Medical Group. The solution also incorporates the Microsoft Business...<br/>
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		<title>ICD-10: Payers &amp; Providers Need to Get Along</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Berard</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On April 17, 2012 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule that would delay, from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014, the compliance date for the International...<br/>
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