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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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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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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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Creating a Provider Portal with Longitudinal Patient Medical History Using Data from Multiple Sources
emids helped this provider of the healthcare industry’s most comprehensive suite of consumer experience platforms build bidirectional adapters to connect the provider portal with 30+ HIS systems.
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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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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 […]
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3 Simple Steps to Start Integrating BA/QA Roles
As the volume of patients continues to grow, along with the emphasis on providing them with quality care at the lowest possible cost, more healthcare organizations than ever are turning to advanced information technology to help them meet the ever-changing needs of the industry. To develop this technology as quickly and as efficiently as possible, […]
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How Risk-Based Testing Benefits Agile Development
Modern software shops are adopting Agile development practices with vigor. An HP survey of more than 600 development and IT pros found that a majority described their company as either “pure Agile” or “leaning towards Agile.” Development teams like Agile because it’s fast-moving, flexible and delivers higher quality products attuned to customer and market needs. The premium […]
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Defining the BA/QA Role
Combining the business analyst and quality assurance roles is a solution gaining favor among many businesses to address the challenges of moving from a siloed workflow process to Agile. A BA/QA expert is a unique individual, one who possesses an in-depth understanding of the business domain and customer needs to define new software requirements yet […]