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Protecting Patient Data in HL7 Logs

By sovita.chander@caristix.com | Published: January 28, 2011
Information Week ran an article this week on protecting patient data. The article wasn’t on one of the usual suspects — a HIPAA violation or a breach in a production system. Instead, this was notable because we’re finally seeing one of the hidden dangers in healthcare IT coming to light: unsecured patient data sitting in [...]
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Avoiding the #1 Interface Validation Mistake

By sovita.chander@caristix.com | Published: October 19, 2010
When provider organizations are on a tight deadline to implement or upgrade an EHR, EMR, HIS or other clinical system, setting up a test or staging system can seem like just another procedural hurdle. So it couldn’t hurt to just do the final testing in the live, production system, right? Wrong. Why It’s Tempting It [...]
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Application Testing in Healthcare: Sacrifice Test Performance for Traceability?

By donald.marcotte@caristix.com | Published: August 10, 2010
There seems to be two conflicting needs in software testing in healthcare: traceability and test performance. Traceability Traceability is the ability to link your requirements to your tests: In healthcare, regulatory compliance is on the side of traceability. Reasonably enough, regulators want to know that products actually do what they’re designed to do. Traceability provides [...]
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