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Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: A Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project but an ongoing journey.

Leander Vanderbijl
on Nov 18, 2024
Culture & Methods

Data-Driven Decision Making - Software Delivery Performance Indicators at Different Granularities

Optimizing a software delivery organization is not a straightforward process standardized in the software industry. Getting the organization to analyze the data and act on it is a difficult undertaking. This article presents insights into how a socio-technical framework for optimizing a software delivery organization has been set up and brought to the point of regular use.

Vladyslav Ukis
on May 23, 2023
Culture & Methods

Start Your Architecture Modernization with Domain-Driven Discovery

Successful projects start with robust discovery. What if your project is modernizing your tangled old legacy system or migrating all your workloads to the cloud? This article presents a guided approach to starting your next architecture modernization project with a Domain-Driven Discovery (DDD), illustrated with a medical supply company that is migrating its core systems to the cloud.

Ryan Shriver
on May 12, 2023
Culture & Methods

Continuous Portfolio Management as a Contributor for Achieving Highly-Aligned, Loosely-Coupled Teams

There is a business need for fast software delivery in order to frequently test business hypotheses and drive development based on the resulting feedback. Organizations need to rapidly decide on what to build next, using a short feedback loop that greatly reduces the risk of running on untested assumptions for too long. This article explores a journey towards continuous portfolio management.

Vladyslav Ukis
on Mar 16, 2022
Culture & Methods

How Medical Companies are Innovating through Agile Practices

The adoption of Agile methods has been steadily growing in medical product companies over the past ten years. Practices vary from cloud-based continuous flow for data-intensive services to sprint-based for physical devices with embedded software. The question is no longer whether, but how Agile can work in medical product development - for our mix of technical, market, and regulatory constraints.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Brian Shoemaker
on Sep 22, 2021
Culture & Methods

Leveraging Diversity to Enhance Cybersecurity

How can we ensure there is a diverse mindset applied to cybersecurity? By including non-technical people, those from non-traditional backgrounds, and being intentional about avoiding herd mentality. If we as an industry proclaim security as a best practice, we must equally ensure diversity to ensure we have most effectively mitigated the risks that abound.

Vidya Murthy
on Sep 10, 2021
Culture & Methods

Supporting Mental Health in the Tech Workplace

Mental health is heavily stigmatized in our society. People living with mental illness do not want to be treated differently; they may need help and accommodation in specific instances. Nara Kasbergen shares her volunteer work for Open Sourcing Mental Illness: a distributed, volunteer-based, non-profit organization that seeks to change the way we talk about mental health in the tech industry.

Nara Kasbergen
on May 04, 2019
Architecture & Design

Transforming the Healthcare Industry through API Marketplaces

A key problem in the healthcare industry is that valuable data points are hidden and siloed. Through an API marketplace, we can expose these data points securely and make them accessible by healthcare industry stakeholders and citizens alike, improving efficiency in the industry and enabling innovation in population health technologies.

Sachini Samson Chanaka Fernando Nuwan Bandara
on Mar 17, 2019
Architecture & Design

Increasing the Quality of Patient Care through Stream Processing

Today’s healthcare technology landscape is disaggregated and siloed. Physicians analyse patient data streams from different systems without much correlation. Even though health-tech domain is mature and rich with data, the value of it is not directed towards increasing the quality of patient care. This article presents a stream processing solution in which streams are co-related.

Nuwan Bandara Himasha Guruge Nadeeshan Gimhana
on Jan 17, 2019
The Promise of Healthcare Analytics

Data analytics play a central role in the healthcare system by improving outcomes and quality of life while helping to control costs. In this article, author describes the role analytics can play with the emerging wearable technologies with biophysical interfaces, physiological sensors, and embedded diagnostic tools.

Seth Earley
on Jun 21, 2015
Kanban at Scale – A Siemens Success Story

This article shows an internally driven and remarkably smooth Kanban implementation approach which very quickly rewarded Siemens Health Services (HS) with real and sustainable improvements in predictability, efficiency and quality. It demonstrates the benefits of “flow” and its advantages in terms of actionable metrics and forecasting capabilities based on real data captured from recent releases.

Bennet Vallet
on Feb 28, 2014
Architecture & Design

Healthy Architectures - Using CQRS and Event Sourcing for Electronic Medical Records

The health care industry has been migrating to electronic medical/health records (EMR/EHR) for some time. Hopwever, problems such as performance and scalability, along with maintaining traceability and reconstructing healthcare related business events need to be addressed. The article introduces the use of techniques and patterns for providing these quality attributes.

Arunava Chatterjee
on Mar 12, 2012