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How Evolving Compliance Mandates Have Changed Healthcare Over the Last Two Decades

In a short span, healthcare compliance mandates have transformed into a sophisticated web of regulations. Initiatives such as HIPAA and HITECH were key initiatives that helped curb disparities by encouraging the adoption of electronic health records and implementing outcome-based clinical standards. With COVID-19 sweeping across the socio-economic landscape, healthcare compliance mandates are no longer an afterthought but have become the norm. It has therefore become the responsibility of healthcare leaders to be transparent and find the right balance between compliance and innovation to progress responsibly in a post-COVID world.

Enterprise Solutions

Securing Legacy Systems in Healthcare: Maintain or Modernize

Healthcare legacy systems such as outdated billing systems and disjointed laboratory information systems are still widely prevalent in most large healthcare organizations. Such legacy systems pose a huge security risk since they may contain patient-sensitive information and must be handled with a great degree of care or be outright replaced. To modernize these age-old machines here are four modernization alternatives that can garner you the best results: Replace technology with a custom-built system, move towards an IaaS solution, rebuild features from scratch or refactor your legacy code.

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Building an Enterprise Platform – Consider Outsource Product Development

Outsourcing is not a new way of doing business. Traditionally, outsourcing would mean bringing in specific skills to augment your IT team. Outsourcing Product Development (OPD) may seem conceptually similar to outsourcing the development of software applications but there are significant differences.

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Product Mindset and Why It Matters?

On 12th?March 2006, just a few weeks after I started my internship with?Microsoft India,?I remember reading this?title in?one of the leading newspapers, it?still flashes in front

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Quality Release – An Integral Part in Your Product Success

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind after seeing the above products? Why do you think they failed miserably? What impact did that

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Culture Heroes: The Early Adopters of Organizational Culture

Often at our internal meetings with team members, we use the phrases like; “That’s the culture we want to build.”, “This is against our thought process as a

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The QA discipline transformation is here, are you ready to leverage it?

When I first started writing code, I had a few Rockstar QAs on my team. I remember once I told them that I am done

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The Queen’s Square: An Operational Framework for Empowering Your Team

The game of chess is an amazing display of a sequence of calculated decisions. The most powerful piece “The Queen”, is the motivation for this

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REDUCING REJECTION RATE BELOW 0.1%: DESIGNING A CLAIMS BILLING & TRACKING SOFTWARE

A few years ago, I was a part of a team that worked on designing a software tool specifically to file and track managed care claims in the US. The business goals identified were to:

Reduce the rejection rate of the claims
Increase the efficiency and the capacity of the billing team
Minimize the cycle time for claims processing

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Top 5 symptoms to watch for if Your Enterprise System/Product is Entering a State of Legacy

In our experience of re-architecting legacy systems, culture is the catalyst that drives the system towards the legacy state. To determine the susceptibility of your own organization’s descent into the legacy, we suggest combat the fear of change by adopting a product mindset, shift gears from system maintenance to modernization and finally put a pin on the culture hero worship by replacing it with a culture centered around accountability.