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Working in Healthcare/Education is pretty rewarding knowing the products we put out are helping people (both improving education for new doctors and improving c

Working in Healthcare/Education is pretty rewarding knowing the products we put out are helping people (both improving education for new doctors and improving clinical care). Sometimes working in Healthcare is annoying (Changes are slow and there are legal restrictions everywhere, e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" and refuse to listen), but it's still good to know we're doing meaningful work.

Insanity 8y ago
We're in healthcare and we're going to the cloud! (still on-prem for a couple of years, but it's in the pipeline. My tests are all in the cloud nowadays) I agree that it is rewarding, and it doesn't feel that slow where I work. We cover more than half the hospitals in our country, and a couple of university-hospitals. There's plenty of change they want - and (surely the university ones) - have plenty of ideas of what they'd like to see. For us "but HIPAA!" is "but GDPR!" for quite some time though. But we're hardly unique in that. It's definitely a nice industry if you want to have a meaningful job. But it does come with some stress as well though. EDIT: Fix my English :D
king_panic 8y ago
"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" I worked for a former healthcare project manager in a completely unrelated industry and I would say 80% of her time was spend worrying about our industry's version of HIPAA. She viewed all new tech projects and software releases through the lens of "How does this violate our industry security standard?". The results were stagnated project releases and high developer turnover.
- dcchambers 8y ago
  That's true - I guess every industry has their version of HIPAA that can frustrate developers/stagnate projects. I don't think that HIPAA or these other regulations are a bad thing, just that maybe the way that some (older, entrenched) management approaches how projects work with those regulations is poor.
maxxxxx 8y ago
"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" and refuse to listen" Same here. Instead of working through the issues management just panics and comes up with some weird approach that delivers less at higher cost and effort.

Insanity 8y ago

We're in healthcare and we're going to the cloud! (still on-prem for a couple of years, but it's in the pipeline. My tests are all in the cloud nowadays) I agree that it is rewarding, and it doesn't feel that slow where I work. We cover more than half the hospitals in our country, and a couple of university-hospitals. There's plenty of change they want - and (surely the university ones) - have plenty of ideas of what they'd like to see. For us "but HIPAA!" is "but GDPR!" for quite some time though. But we're hardly unique in that. It's definitely a nice industry if you want to have a meaningful job. But it does come with some stress as well though. EDIT: Fix my English :D

king_panic 8y ago

"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" I worked for a former healthcare project manager in a completely unrelated industry and I would say 80% of her time was spend worrying about our industry's version of HIPAA. She viewed all new tech projects and software releases through the lens of "How does this violate our industry security standard?". The results were stagnated project releases and high developer turnover.

dcchambers 8y ago
That's true - I guess every industry has their version of HIPAA that can frustrate developers/stagnate projects. I don't think that HIPAA or these other regulations are a bad thing, just that maybe the way that some (older, entrenched) management approaches how projects work with those regulations is poor.

maxxxxx 8y ago

"e.g. any time you mention the word "cloud" the C-level folks yell "but HIPAA!" and refuse to listen" Same here. Instead of working through the issues management just panics and comes up with some weird approach that delivers less at higher cost and effort.