A recent report on healthcare points out why the senior leaders in the healthcare sector should consider “digital” as their top priority. In the fifties, many institutions began to implement technology as they had a goal to automate standardized activities feels Bahaa Al Zubaidi.

The healthcare sector also started leveraging Information Technology for automating processes. The result was a huge volume of statistical data, The same report also stated that the way Healthcare embraced IT can be compared to other verticals. As the 1970s arrived, there was another wave of IT/digitization and was responsible for the following couple of changes:

·      The adoption supported Business-To-Business processes like supply-chain management for different institutions across domains.

·      The move integrated different types of core business processes with a company.

Why do digitization and automation matter for healthcare?

It s extremely critical for the healthcare providers to go for digitization and automation. There are several repetitive activities, which need to be completed with absolute accuracy and speed. Cross-browser and function testing plays a critical part to build a market-ready and responsive web platform for its users. After all, the domain is hungry for consistent performance and results.

These days, users assess healthcare-related solutions across browsers and devices with different dimensions. Creating an application, which is compatible across browsers and devices is extremely business-critical in this scenario.

Defining compatible testing

Compatibility testing is a type of non-functional testing deployed for assessing the compatibility of the application across different environment. It is classified into backward compatibility testing and forward compatibility testing.

The major goal is to ascertain the compatibility of the application across different operating systems, hardware, operating systems, browser versions, and databases. What happens when the software suffers from compatibility issues with many hardware devices?

The effort to upgrade the hardware would be useless then. After all, the key purpose to upgrade hardware is to make the operations faster and provide improved experience.

Consequences for not conducting effective compatibility testing

  • When there is lack of compatibility with the network, there could be bandwidth and performance issues for users.
  • Is there lack of compatibility between the software and different database versions? There could be interoperability problems as a result.
  • If the software is not compatible with different devices, such as printers, scanners, etc, there could be hardware damage and confusion for the users.
  • In case the software is incompatible across browsers, end users might loss interest and not use it.

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