The framework enhances quality assurance procedures, reduces application development testing time and helps create applications that are right first time for doctors and nurses across Wales. The framework, aligned with Informing Healthcare's process for ensuring patient safety, also helps ensure that any IT system implemented improves rather than jeopardises patient safety.
The testing framework is a comprehensive set of documents which explains Informing Healthcare's testing strategy and provides guidance on how to test an application, the appropriate test environment, and a range of testing techniques. It also provides sample test plans and testing templates for all stages of application development.
"Organisations should not get too carried away with the glamour of application development and the benefits that new applications can bring to healthcare organisations," says Paul Malcolm, EMEA Regional Director, Simpl. "It is important of course, but it is also essential that only top quality applications reach the doctors and nurses on the front line and that can only happen through testing in a consistent, proven way.
With the inclusion of the testing strategy to the framework, it helps stakeholders to understand the testing process better than before. Firstly, in-house product managers and external suppliers of applications are required to comply with the testing procedures laid down in the framework. Second, the framework helps the external suppliers understand why Informing Healthcare is committed to such rigorous testing, which in short, is because clinical safety is Informing Healthcare's highest priority along with the ‘Fit For Purpose’ factor of applications."
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Simpl is a trusted IT advisor to national and private healthcare organisations primarily in England, Wales and Scotland. It it also increasingly responding to growing interest from healthcare organisations in mainland Europe and the Middle East.