Highlights and Insights from our Healthcare Team at Dreamforce

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Dreamforce is over – so many people, so many stories, and so many things to learn. It never gets old, quite the opposite, but still remains a very tiring week! As the leader of Silverline’s Healthcare Practice, it is incredibly rewarding to see the extent to which Healthcare has now become such a focus of...

HIMSS: Silverline extends the Power of Health Cloud with Patient Contact Center

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From February 19-23, I went with one of our Healthcare Practice Directors, Jim Rogers and our Vice President of Solutions and Products, along with Salesforce to Florida for HIMSS, the annual conference that brings together health IT professionals, clinicians, and executives from around the world. While we were there, I spoke at the Salesforce booth...

Dreamforce Highlights for Healthcare

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If your week at Dreamforce was anything like mine, I hope you have found time to recharge your wellbeing and digest all the new innovations that were announced during the week. We are lucky in the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry because our goals are all aligned across each sub-industry: the health of our patients....

Transforming Healthcare One Connected Device (to Salesforce) at a Time

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Silverline works with a number of Medical Device organizations to help improve their operational efficiencies, increase market share, and inform better patient care and outcomes. These projects tend to start with an emphasis on improving Sales, Service, and Marketing processes, most times including integrations to ERPs and other enterprise systems. What we are finding though...

Get the Most Out of Dreamforce for Healthcare and Life Sciences

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Dreamforce is almost here, I hope you are ready for an exciting week! It’s time to get ready for four days of innovation for the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry. To get you going in the right direction, I’ve compiled a few of the top sessions you should add to your list for the week....

Healthcare DSRIP Programs: Being Successful with Technology

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The other day I had the opportunity to join, and present, at the Salesforce office for a Developer day focused on the New York State DSRIP initiative given our current work with DSRIP clients. For those that are not aware, NY State, like 10+ States across the country are focusing their efforts on new Delivery...

Cloud Promotion Through Meaningful Use 3

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The recent introduction of Meaningful Use 3 presented a lot of the same, or clarifications of the past. However, it also demonstrated a sincere desire to learn from prior mistakes and offer opportunities to make the goals of meaningful use more achievable. In doing so, it appears that CMS is recognizing that by further expanding...

What if being USEful actually made Technology Meaningful

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Meaningful use – it’s a huge buzz word, and rightfully so. Whether you agree or disagree with the manner in which it has been “implemented” (and the intricacies of the guidelines), it has been a driving factor in pushing healthcare organizations towards greater technology adoption. Money, especially in Healthcare, remains a rather significant momentum driver...

Scheduling – A Path to Healthcare Transformation

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We all like to think big. There is often tremendous benefit in doing so. Seeking to transform Healthcare is a great strategic goal; tactically, not so much. You must focus less on a master solution to fix the “system” and instead figure out how to address niche problems within the system that will ultimately lead...

Why Healthcare needs Continuous Transformation

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Last month before the Holidays, I unfortunately had to spend time in the hospital with a sick family member. The old adage “Nobody likes a hospital” is certainly true, however it has recently become quite insightful given the maturity of my career in the Healthcare industry.

When I enter a hospital now, outside of being concerned for the welfare of the person that is seeking clinical care, I often find myself analyzing the environment around me. Are there opportunities to improve? Is that medical device from a client of mine? Is the Doctor board certified? It is truly intriguing how knowledge breeds a new perspective.