Healthcare is one of the most rigorous and unique areas when building and testing software products. Product companies in this space are helping doctors, patients, and other medical professionals reimagine what’s possible with wearable technology, hospital indexing systems, and countless other innovations.
July 29, 2023In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) defined standards for safeguarding all patients' sensitive and confidential data. The act requires health insurance providers to enforce strict privacy and security rules, each designed to protect the patient and all electronically protected health information, known as ePHI.
May 30, 2023The healthcare industry is facing a myriad of challenges in the current times, ranging from the increasing demand for quality patient care to regulatory compliance and rising costs. The traditional approach to healthcare delivery is no longer adequate to meet these challenges, and there is a growing need to adopt modern software development practices such as DevOps and Agile methodologies. These practices can help healthcare organizations improve their software delivery processes, enhance patient experiences, and drive business growth.
February 25, 2023Welcome to the final installment of our healthcare software testing blog series, where we explore the unique pain points of testing in this space and uncover the solutions that QA teams can provide. In our last posts, we looked at challenges related to domain expertise, data migration, healthcare standards, integration testing, security testing, and performance testing.
October 25, 2022Electronic 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.
October 5, 2022It 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.
September 13, 2022The 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.
May 31, 2022The 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.
February 8, 2022Big 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.