A Software Methodology to Improve Development Processes of Healthcare Systems

Abstract

Software development methodology for healthcare projects may be a major cause of late schedule, over-budgeting, dissatisfaction with requirements, and poor quality. Therefore, there should be a methodology for managing and improving software development processes as a major solution to these problems. Managing software development process requires a guideline for developing software products on schedule within budget, avoiding risks, and meeting requirements. In recent years, software process improvement has been extensively studied in traditional or rapid software development, and its strengths and weaknesses have been recognized. Rapidly methodologies have challenged the traditional ways of developing a critical system such as healthcare. The main objective of this research is to improve the productivity of healthcare systems and avoid risks by improving development processes. The research proposed a development methodology called “Rapid Healthcare System Development (RHSD)”. The proposed methodology acts fast and takes care of risks during development processes by intensifying the testing and validation mechanism. RHSD also facilitates the development of health care systems within the required requirements and achieves the highest levels of quality.