Monitoring for Epic Application Performance

Epic application performance monitoring needs to take into account the large sizes of databases that the application covers. Because Epic applications cover the medical and healthcare industry, performance testing solutions need to include areas such as Practice Management, Hospital Billing, Ambulatory and Inpatient EMR, etc. Epic also covers departments and ancillaries, and takes care of interoperability matters and the need for connecting affiliates.

As agencies involved in healthcare, including hospitals, medical groups and integrated healthcare organizations move towards adopting Epic applications, the need for adequate testing solutions is only going to increase. Further, because of the nature of industry that Epic applications serve, their effective performance is fundamental to the agencies using them. Services such as emergency rooms cannot afford to have applications that are not up and running when needed.

Epic consists of large databases that cover clinical as well as revenue functions for healthcare organizations. Epic performance needs to take into account not only healthcare concerns such as patient details, but also aspects such as system health, compliance with SLA, real user experience, etc. Performance monitoring for Epic applications also takes into account the environments.

Epic applications improve the productivity of physicians by helping to simplify the practice, including aspects of patient engagement. Eventually, effective Epic application performance results in better care delivery. The applications within this system take care of more than 100 specialties, all designed to make healthcare simpler with the use of pre-built content on reports, documents, order sets, etc. This makes for faster and effective care-giving, including for chronic care cases. For healthcare providers, the performance of their Epic applications must never flag, particularly since the system supports some critical areas within medical care, resulting in measurable increase in quality of care provided.

Application Performance And The Challenges To Testing

Performance testing is vital throughout the lifestyle of any application. However, if done in the early stages of application development, it can help save organizations a significant amount of costs and efforts that may need to be put in at a later stage. Often, in the initial stages, pressures for quick deployment lead to rigorous performance testing being put off, or postponed for a later stage.

Reviewing performance of any application has to be an ongoing process, because despite rigorous testing, the real world throws up challenges that may be unusual or not understood previously. Even after different reviews and tests are conducted on particular software, assessing its efficacy in the real world can be a challenge, given network conditions and user behavior. Probably one of the biggest challenges faced by experts is accurately predicting application performance on the basis of its testing.

Not integrating product development with performance

Not many developers understand the need to integrate performance in the development and deployment plan for an application. As a result, performance testing gets jeopardized, beginning with development of the application. Also, the application may lose out on the benefits of performance testing applied in initial stages, costing the organization a lot more in poor performance or frequent performance glitches in the later stages. This can get compounded depending on which stage of its lifecycle the product is at. At post-deployment stage, the costs and efforts of fixing software issues can be high enough to cause significant damage in terms of money, and worse, user experience and loyalty.

Elements That Need To Be Checked When Deploying Microsoft Dynamics Suite

As a major Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, and business software management tool, the Microsoft Dynamics suite presents a lot of usable features, including multiple modules and software configurations, making testing an even more challenging prospect. However, when successfully deployed, it can make for a very effective application to maximize your efforts and optimize your services in terms of both, quality and time.

What are the areas that need careful scrutiny for Microsoft Dynamics Testing?

1. Planned testing: Ideally, the testing should be a well-planned affair. If you're employing a vendor to carry out the deployment, ensure that the testing is comprehensive.

2. Make testing mandatory: The business for whom deployment is to be done, should be informed about the testing so that adequate provision of time can be made.

3. Anticipatory checks: Based on the requirements for the Microsoft Dynamics suite and its functionality, certain problems can be anticipated and testing undertaken for them, specially.

4. Covering all ground: Testing should include every aspect of the business requirements from Microsoft Dynamics.

5. Taking care of technical details: If your vendor is familiar with testing and Microsoft Dynamics performance monitoring, activities such as data migration, if needed, should be identified and tested.

6. Creating mock scenarios: If the testing environment can replicate a possible situation involving Microsoft Dynamics environment, the viability of the entire operation gets verified better.

7. Testing Performance: Performance and factors like availability need to be thoroughly tested as well. To an extent, this can ensure that problems in the future get taken care of.