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Electronic data interchange, or EDI, is a way for business documents to be easily communicated between computers in a standard format. This unified format allows healthcare professionals to carry out efficient automation of work processes and increase positive client experiences. With the digitalization of the healthcare industry, it’s imperative that you implement EDI in your healthcare systems to improve overall data analytics and save costs. In this article, we answer the question, “what is healthcare EDI?” You will also learn how to incorporate EDI testing and comply with modern EDI standards.

It is essential to test your medical devices for accurate diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of illnesses. Various factors like regulatory norms, cyberattacks, or software glitches can affect the functionality of the medical device. Hence, to ensure high-quality output, quality assurance and quality control have become the need of the hour in medical device testing.

The future of healthcare is digital. Although, services like telehealth appointments and electronic health records have become the industry norms, providing these services alone are not enough to stay ahead of the competition. It is equally important to invest time and effort to test your medical devices for accurate diagnosis, prevention and treatment of illnesses due to the increasing complexity of software embedded in these devices. Various factors like regulatory norms, cyberattacks or software glitches can affect the functionality of medical devices, and hence, to ensure high-quality output, quality assurance has become the need of the hour.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought a drastic change in people’s lives and the business world. Even healthcare technology witnessed major advancements like telehealth, virtual medical assistance, and automated medical apps and software. Although, the transformation of the healthcare industry is running successfully, however, protecting compliance regulations is a bit concerning for healthcare organizations. And true to that, healthcare service providers and patients are not exempted from any compliances or regulations.

Big data is a term that defines the large volume of unstructured or structured data that impacts a business on a day-to-day basis. This data can give valuable business insights and solve business problems that could not be tackled before with conventional analytics or software. Over the last few years, various healthcare software has been launched to make people’s lives easier and improve quality care. Moreover, the healthcare and life sciences industry demands foolproof product quality assurance.

The healthcare industry is growing expeditiously as healthcare practitioners are looking for ways to improve patient care and give them easy access to care options while reducing the overall cost of maintaining the infrastructure. Fortunately, digital technology has made it easier for healthcare specialists and patients to communicate with each other. Virtual care and remote medicine are breaking down the barriers that would previously prevent patients from accessing doctors and other healthcare options.

Over the past few years, a growing number of healthcare providers have started using websites and mobile applications to collaborate efficiently with partners and patient support services and communicate more effectively with patients in a timely manner. APIs allow healthcare companies to do all this.

Developing a well functioning and compliant healthcare application comes with a unique set of challenges. Meeting security standards and properly integrating third party software solutions are just two of the hurdles development and QA teams can expect to encounter. QASource’s experts have created this checklist to help teams navigate the complexities of healthcare app QA testing.

The healthcare industry presents a unique set of challenges for software development and QA teams, and as telehealth continues to grow in popularity, it's more important than that teams are prepared with the appropriate systems and tools. The checklist below will help teams organize, execute, and document QA processes for healthcare domains and applications.