Talent Acquisition Specialist Becky Suid loved her work at Healthcare IT Leaders so much that she chose it twice. A resource manager and recruiter for finance and accounting professionals for 10 years prior, Becky was one of Healthcare IT Leaders' first employees (a recruiter for consultants) in 2011. She left in 2012 to spend more time […]
The creation of a Testing Center of Excellence (TCoE) represents an organizational commitment to software quality. And as I’ve written recently, more IT organizations are adopting a TCoE model, according to the 2014-15 World Quality Report from HP, Capgemini and Sogeti (see chart below). But for every organization investing in quality, there are plenty of others that: Rush to […]
With more than 3,000 known Ebola cases and 1,500 deaths from the virus, public health officials and healthcare organizations are eager to track the spread of Ebola and share this data with others in the industry. Currently, there is no specific ICD-9 code for Ebola; it's tracked in hospitals that have not updated to ICD-10 with […]
Earlier this month, I participated in the StarWest Conference for software testers and quality assurance professionals at Anaheim, California. Many of the best and brightest in our industry attended, and it was clear to me that we are entering a period of rapid innovation and growth in the QA and testing arena. New technology and […]
Out with the days of factory work and assembly lines, in with the desk jobs and computers. If you’re an IT consultant, you may spend many hours sitting at a desk, reviewing lines of code, programming new computer systems and testing for software bugs – but what you probably aren’t doing is moving around a […]
Whether you call it recruiting or staffing, the business of putting other people to work is full of all six basic emotions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise. In the office, a theme that connects all of those feelings is "humor," as sometimes recruiters want to laugh from happiness - and other times from total desperation. Nowhere […]
Outside of airports, hotels are a germaphobe’s worst nightmare. And if you’re a frequently traveling healthcare IT consultant, you’re constantly in and out of both situations. With the 2014-2015 flu season starting this month in the United States, it’s best to prepare early to protect yourself against germs. In addition to eating right in your hotel room […]
The frequency of enterprise software releases and adoption of cloud and mobile technologies are just some of the factors driving increased spend and focus on quality assurance and testing. But QAT practices can vary greatly from one IT organization to the next. So how do you stack up against others? This short assessment should help […]
An Ebola patient is seen in the ED and discharged. The hospital points to its EHR software as the culprit. Alas, if it were only that simple. In fact, as we all are now aware, the EHR has been exonerated (in an unusual and carefully worded clarification). The patient has died. And we as physicians […]
With the ICD-10 countdown clock again ticking toward the October 1, 2015, compliance deadline, I’m reminded of the rush to complete Y2K projects in 1999. There is a lot of work to do and less than year left to do it. The deadline represents thousands of hours of testing work for QA professionals and applications […]
When you want a job, you should express that desire to a recruiter or hiring manager. But you shouldn’t feel so desperate for a job that you call a recruiter immediately after sending your resume to see if he or she has reviewed it yet, expect a recruiter to write your resume for you or […]
Former HP Software worldwide quality evangelist leads QAT consulting practice focused on healthcare software and clients Healthcare IT Leaders today announced the hire of Michael Cooper as Chief Quality Officer and VP, Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT), leading the company’s QAT services and consulting practice. Cooper is an acknowledged authority on software quality and testing, […]