The document discusses the critical importance and advantages of testing in the healthcare domain, highlighting how proper testing can prevent fatalities and foster trust in electronic software. It addresses various types of hospital software, testing challenges, real-time issues like medication errors, and emerging trends in the field. Overall, the document emphasizes the role of software testing in enhancing healthcare quality and safety.

1. Testing
in Healthcare
Domain

2. Importance & advantages of doing testing in healthcare domain
• Can software Kill People?
• Therac25
• Doing it right, saves lives
• Instill trust on Electronic Software's for Hospitals
• Easier flow of digital data, prevents manual errors
• Provides a transparent healthcare ecosystem
• a satisfactory career helping to make changes in the society

4. Major types of hospital software
• Outpatient
• Inpatient
• Hospital inventory
• Dictation software
• Patient portal
• Medical Devices

5. Testing
challenges
• 24 * 7 up time required for the software
• Showing the right data to the right person all
the time
• Multiple players / roles in the software
• Keep the Drug Data base updated every day
• Security attack Threat
• Regulatory Compliance
• Cross dependency of software
• Numerous Medical devices to be tested

6. How do we test?
• Act like a Doctor, Think like a Patient
- Alan Sidney Rockoff
• Checklist Manifesto
– Atul Gawande
• Usability testing of Medical Devices
– Michael, Jonathan, Allison
• Secure Programming with Static Analysis: Getting Software
Security Right with Static Analysis
– Brian, Jacob

7. Few Possible real time issues
• Medication Errors / Prescribing Errors: Wrong Drug, wrong dose,
bad combination, bad reaction
• Example: Decimal place errors 0.2MG added as 2MG adds a
significant difference
• Treating the wrong patient, Operating on the wrong body part
• Important lab results returned with no warning that immediate
action was needed
• Consult notes / Encounter notes added disappears due to a
software issue

9. New Trends in Testing & Domain
• Medical Devices software Simulation
• Tech companies hiring doctors & Nurses
• Hospitals hiring CTO’s / Technology leaders
• Population health software
• Preventive disease Gadgets

10. Thank you for
listening!