Re:Ask HN: What is your experience of collaborating with doc...
by josefinaruiz on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:21AM
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This is a great question. I work at a software development firm called Light-it and we've had a few healthcare projects. This are some of the insights:
- Security is highly sensible, all the data is very confidential and can't be lost, so it's important for the IT department to understand that.
- Both, doctors and IT people, tend to use jargon and technical speaking. Both should try being as simple and clear as you can so that there aren't missunderstandings.
- If you're building a system for doctors, the IT team must keep in mind doctors are very busy people so the system should be really smooth, usable and accessible (you'd want to have a good UX designer at the team).
- IT team should be familiarized with the Medstack (HIPAA compliant hosting).
- If whatever platform you're building manages patients information, it's very important to cover all edge cases to guarantee the information safe and the platform 100% reliable.
- Security is highly sensible, all the data is very confidential and can't be lost, so it's important for the IT department to understand that.
- Both, doctors and IT people, tend to use jargon and technical speaking. Both should try being as simple and clear as you can so that there aren't missunderstandings.
- If you're building a system for doctors, the IT team must keep in mind doctors are very busy people so the system should be really smooth, usable and accessible (you'd want to have a good UX designer at the team).
- IT team should be familiarized with the Medstack (HIPAA compliant hosting).
- If whatever platform you're building manages patients information, it's very important to cover all edge cases to guarantee the information safe and the platform 100% reliable.
Hope this is useful!