Software Engineering Insights

A patient’s accountability and engagement in their own health is reforming the care delivery system. When patients take charge of their medication, an adherence system can help them achieve the treatment or output expected.

Paper contracts is an old-school approach for binding agreements. Involving multiple intermediaries, several rounds of negotiations, and a lengthy administration of finalized agreement is no more a standard practice. While digital documents are an effortless alternative to these traditional contracts, they are easy to forge.

Technology advancements, healthcare reforms, and ever-changing patient requirements in healthcare poses a number of challenges for the providers. To overcome them and achieve customer experience objectives, it is important to construct a system that supports real-time orchestration of healthcare resources (like data, people, devices, facilities).

No matter how great a business idea is, its existence and endurance is difficult without sufficient funds. Since long, Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been one of the popular and regulated fundraising schemes, which, today is challenged by Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Thanks to the steeping rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain.

Cryptocurrencies are causing a stir with their skyrocketing value. With this, the demand for Blockchain wallets is rising as well. By the end of 2017, over 21 million users were reported to be using the wallets for transactions of their digital currencies (according to Statista).

Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a system that contains patient-centric information, saved electronically. This may include an individual’s health status, demographic data, or clinical information (like lab reports, radiology, or pharmacy data).

Naive companies and startups usually turn to angel investors and venture capitalists for fundraising. In order to receive an initial capital aid, these startups give away a part of their equity to the investors. While this idea has been prominently adopted from years, startups today are more interested in holding on to their ownership, and still secure funds for development. This is where Initial Coin Offering (ICO) comes into picture.

Ever since dynamic websites started to improve user experience on web, developers have been particular about the backend development technology of their application. While PHP and Nodejs are two most favorable options available for the modern web; making a choice between the two is definitely a hard job to do. 

Javascript’s contribution to intuitive and dynamic front-end development has been unparalleled. The gradual advances in the technology can be estimated from the fact that today, Javascript lay the basis for some of the popular frameworks, meant for building user interfaces. React Native, Cordova, Titanium are to name a few.

Patient portals can go a long way in bridging the care-delivery gap between patients and providers. This modern technology has a major role in keeping patients informed, involved, and connected with care providers.