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josefinaruiz | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your experience of collaborating with doctors on IT projects?

This is a great question. I work at a software development firm called Light-it and we've had a few healthcare projects. This are some of the insights:

- Security is highly sensible, all the data is very confidential and can't be lost, so it's important for the IT department to understand that.

- Both, doctors and IT people, tend to use jargon and technical speaking. Both should try being as simple and clear as you can so that there aren't missunderstandings.

- If you're building a system for doctors, the IT team must keep in mind doctors are very busy people so the system should be really smooth, usable and accessible (you'd want to have a good UX designer at the team).

- IT team should be familiarized with the Medstack (HIPAA compliant hosting).

- If whatever platform you're building manages patients information, it's very important to cover all edge cases to guarantee the information safe and the platform 100% reliable.

Hope this is useful!

josefinaruiz | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: As a software engineer on a new team, how can you standout?

Engineers that, aside from being good technically, have a product mindset and are constantly thinking about the users, really stand out and are valued by any product team. This helps the whole company move from "delivering software" to building valuable solutions for users, that have a direct impact on the business. Leaders and clients love this. You can start by learning some basic concepts of UX or design thinking.

This is a good approach: https://lightit.io/blog/digital-product-agency/

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