The U.S. Department of Labor estimated that by 2030, there may be an 85 million shortage of software engineers globally. Fields such as healthcare software quality assurance (QA) face even greater challenges due to accelerated digitization and increasing volumes of regulations about patient data. …

San Francisco is notorious for its eclectic ice cream flavors — hibiscus beet, pina colada rum, peanut butter curry, and even charcoal have made their way onto the scene. But, just like choosing a novel ice cream flavor, IT leaders face a similar conundrum when it comes to cloud computing…

Despite lingering uncertainties stemming from the pandemic, there was significant growth in and demand for test automation in 2022 to support digital transformation. …

Software integration has become more woven into the fabric of a patient’s experience than many would have even imagined even a few years ago. Before the pandemic, healthcare was slow to adopt digital technologies. However, as healthcare organizations emerge from a global pandemic, they are increasing their software investments, even…

Healthcare is more at risk of data breaches than ever before. In 2021, one in three third-party data breaches targeted healthcare organizations. Since 2009, breaches have accounted for the loss, theft, or exposure of more than 340 million healthcare records, with the size of each data breach increasing yearly. …

At this point, it is clear that there’s a slow but steady march in healthcare toward interoperability. There were two milestones in the last quarter of 2022. In October, the 21st Century CURES Act opened medical records up to patients. Then all U.S. …

Are you thinking about adding telehealth platforms to your clinical repertoire in 2023? You are not alone. The boom of telehealth software — using digital information technologies to provide virtual care and drive patient engagement — may be one of the few silver linings to the pandemic. In the post-pandemic…

In what seems like the blink of an eye, mentions of robotic process automation (RPA) have become ubiquitous in the healthcare industry. Since the pandemic, RPA has solved multiple challenges effectively — from reducing errors and costs — to freeing clinicians to focus on more strategic initiatives. …

For nearly three years, COVID-19 catapulted the healthcare industry into the eye of a gathering storm. On the technical side, cloud migration, AI adoption, and analytics modernization picked up momentum; on the business side, staff shortages grew, budgets were tight, and regulatory changes loomed. Meanwhile, against this tumultuous backdrop, healthcare…