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Design-Led Engineering
4 Benefits of Using a Microservices Architecture in Digital and Connected Health Solutions
Dive into what microservices is and discover the benefits of implementing a microservices architecture when it comes to accelerating your digital and connected health solution’s time to market. Healthcare is poised for significant change over the coming years as a result of emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), virtual assistants, sensors, and wearables. Significant investments […]
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Product Engineering
Pushing the DevOps Needle with In-Sprint Automation
IT and software organizations began adopting the Agile method more than a decade ago in order to deliver releases in quick succession. DevOps came along soon after, narrowing the gap between concept and reality. DevOps is a significant shift in software development and testing, as it relies on automation and collaboration to improve how teams […]
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Data & Analytics
Provider
Data Governance, Data Liquidity and the Data Chain of Trust
How the right data governance model can help healthcare organizations meet the demands of digital transformation By Randy Thomas, FHIMSS Senior Director, Value-based Consulting Value-based care. Population health management. Digital health. Healthcare consumerism. Promoting interoperability. All these evolving healthcare opportunities require consistent, accurate, reliable data. While the quantity of data created in healthcare continues to […]
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Consumer Experience
Data & Analytics
Using Data to Transform the Consumer Experience
As patient data becomes more diverse and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning make analytics more intuitive, opportunities are growing for connecting disparate data throughout the healthcare industry and using it to make decisions, predict needs, identify risks, and strengthen trust and relationships with consumers. In healthcare organizations, CIOs are leading these […]
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Artificial Intelligence
HealthTech
AI, the IoT and the Potential for Healthcare Disruption
Healthcare has a future akin to The Jetsons: Sensors that track patients when they enter and leave their hospital room; real-time location technology that detects the flow of staff and the status of clinical equipment; pills that “report” medication adherence and software that predicts results from treatments. These technologies are New Age for most medical […]
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Design Thinking
How the Internet of Things (IoT) Is Paving the Way for Ambient User Experience
Ambient user experience occurs when various technology systems and devices—and the data gathered by them—seamlessly interact and adapt to user needs based on the context in which they are used. This may or may not require a human touch. Gartner, which produces technology research for global firms, named ambient user experience one of the top […]
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Consumer Experience
HealthTech
Best Practices for Incorporating Wearable Health Tech
Wearable health tech is exploding. According to research statistics portal Statista, the value of the global wearables market, which was valued at a mere $6 million in 2010, is expected to grow to more than $12 billion next year. But if you build it, will they come? No, says this report from the PriceWaterhouseCoopers’ Health […]
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Product Engineering
Quality Assurance
Why Merging Business Analyst (BA) and Quality Assurance (QA) Roles Is a Smart Move for Your Product Development Strategy
As the healthcare industry continues to change and evolve, the demand for advanced healthcare technology is on the upswing. Development teams find themselves hard-pressed to deliver technology faster and more efficiently. Healthcare organizations and vendors developing new technologies are the perfect candidates for the Agile practice, where overlapping, cross-functional roles and frequent collaboration are keys […]
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Product Engineering
Quality Assurance
How Integrating Business Analyst (BA) and Quality Assurance (QA) Teams Drives Successful Application Development, Delivery
What BA/QA Integration Can Do BA/QA integration identifies defects early in the process, when they can be remediated much more inexpensively. The merging of these roles creates more contextual knowledge among the team members, and they are able to propose ideas for improvement related to functionality, compliance and quality. Eliminating the silos between the two […]
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Data & Analytics
HealthTech
Tackling Telehealth Integration Challenges
Telehealth integration projects typically involve connecting systems, integrating data sets including cleansing and normalizing data, and integrating an increasing array of mobile devices. The grand goal is to connect all of these incoming mobile data streams to the core clinical systems—most importantly, the EMR. In many cases, telehealth integration with the lab and radiology information […]
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Product Engineering
Quality Assurance
Building an Effective BA/QA Communication Pipeline
Communication is vital in Agile software development, where team members take on overlapping, cross-functional roles to design, develop, test and deploy, and where frequent collaboration is required. This workflow becomes more accelerated in DevOps, where extreme automation comes to play and weekly or daily releases are the norm. Nowhere is communication more vital in these […]
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Strategy
Patient Portals Improve Medication Adherence
Patient portals are intended to help providers connect with patients in order to help them take a more active role in their health and wellness. Recent research shows that data sharing through electronic health records (EHR) and patient portals can in fact improve medication adherence, boost satisfaction and improve patient engagement. A two-year study conducted […]