White Papers from Foliage are your source for information on the latest technology developments that affect the medical industry.
Author: Amit Shah, Test Engineering Manager and Tim Bosch, Chief Architect
Implementing an automated software testing program requires a structured and planned approach. It requires an automated test strategy specifically tailored to your software development process and regulatory requirements. It also requires that you select the right automated test tools and that you design modularity into your test architecture using automated test frameworks. By following the approach presented in this paper, you can realize a significant return on investment for automated software testing, gain a competitive advantage in the industry by reducing time to market, and increase the quality level for your products.
Author: Tim Bosch, Chief Architect
This article describes how healthcare information system providers can increase the efficiency and pace of software development by adopting or adapting agile development methods while preserving quality and meeting design control demands.
Author: Charlie Alfred, Principal Architect; Tim Bowe, Co-CEO
Successfully delivering next generation cardiology products to market is not an easy task. You have to balance requests for new product features against available budget, staffing limitations, schedule constraints, strategic importance and expected profit. The most effective way to address this challenge is by having a well defined (and agreed upon) product strategy. This white paper identifies the keys to defining a product strategy destined to succeed. It outlines some tough questions that your organization must ask prior to establishing an effective product strategy, and it also proposes actions that must be taken if your organization is unable to answer any of these questions.
Author: Tim Bowe, Co-CEO; Norm Delisle, Engineering Vice President; Hoyt Lougee, Engineering Manager
Leading companies in the medical industry have a long history of using mergers and acquisitions as an alternative method of advancing their product offerings. The acquisition strategy has been used as an alternative to already large R&D budgets, and as a bulwark against the increasingly long product development cycles under which many companies function. This paper examines the factors that are critical in aligning business and technology strategies to extract the most market leverage and top-line growth from combined or restructured product lines.
Author: Tim Bosch, Chief Architect, Medical Division
This white paper defines “integration” and “interoperability”, and presents best approaches to each based on real world experience. These practical steps will help you meet expectations and successfully achieve the integration and interoperability that you desire.
Author: Timothy Bosch, Technical Director; Timothy Bowe, Co-CEO
This new white paper from Foliage discusses the important assessment steps that any medical company should take before investing in a next generation software product development effort. This paper describes a very low investment, high return method to evaluate your existing software-based product where the end result is guaranteed alignment of your business, product and technology goals.
Author: Timothy Bosch, Technical Director, Medical Division, Tim Bowe, Co-CEO, George Plourde, Engineering Director, Medical Division
You can gain control of your software budget, schedule, and quality from definition through verification in a way that will help ensure customer acceptance and a prosperous product life by embracing four critical strategies: Align Business and Technology Goals; Manage Requirements; Formulate an Effective Architecture; and Drive Successful Development.
Author: Timothy Bosch, Technical Director, Medical Division, John Cadigan, General Manager, Medical Division
This paper discusses the importance of evaluating system architectures at the earliest stage of system definition, using quantifiable assessments of system suitability and value to guide and inform business decisions. We present a case study to highlight and explore how these assessment techniques are applied to a real world medical product.
Author: Vince Dovydaitis, Technical Director
Utilizing the case study method, this presentation analyzes the architecture and implementation of a secure image storage and distribution system. The paper examines the effect of using .NET on both developer productivity and the architecture of the resulting system. This presentation also provides insight into the implications of key business drivers on system architecture.
Author: Mark Hersey, Engineering Director; John Cadigan, Medical Practice Director; Tim Bowe, Co-CEO
As medical devices and information systems enter their end-of-life period, product teams need to select the software technologies for their next-generation products. This paper outlines the considerations and risks involved in selecting technologies and concludes with examples of project characteristics that will help you decide whether or not your project is suited to .NET.
Author: John Cadigan, Medical Practice Director; Hoyt Lougee, Engineering Director
This paper discusses the importance of medical software time-to-market, key attributes of high-performance teams, and an improved strategy to engage such teams without incurring the risk, cost, and delay required to build one.
Author: John Cadigan, Medical Division Manager Jim Everett-Wilson, Technical Director, Norm Delisle, Engineering V.P.
If you are facing a complete product redevelopment, you may not have to rewrite the entire program. This paper discusses some low-cost, easy-to-learn formal software architecture evaluation methods that can be used to help you save millions of dollars per year in software maintenance costs. Additionally, these methods can help you gain the ability to quickly develop new products off your software code base to capitalize on new product opportunities.
