White Paper

“Medical Information Technology”

SK Associates LLC

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In today’s fast changing technology world doctors’ credibility, patient life, the reputation of medical
hospitals and medical university totally depend on “Medical Information Technology”. Providers of
any medical or healthcare information systems must consider how to overcome challenges such as
integration, interoperability, connectivity, platform migration requirements, product evolution and
database specifications while complying with industry standards. Over the years, SK Associates LLC
has worked with many clients who face these challenges in the wake of medical information systems
development. SK Associates LLC provides a range of services to medical information systems
providers including:

• Software product assessments to ascertain suitability of current software for future product
releases

• Architecture design and evaluation to determine platform migration feasibility

• Best practices integration methodologies

• Alignment of your business and technology goals

• Processes that enable you to meet your time-to-market goals

• Reduction of total product life cycle costs

• Mitigation of software development risk

• Decrease in software development costs

Our combination of packaged and custom services can eliminate your specific medical information
systems software challenges so that you can ensure your customers see a quicker return on their
investment in your products.
SK Associates LLC is a pioneer in offsite software design, product development and offsite software
maintenance support on a turnkey basis. From the early nineties we are executing complete turnkey
outsourcing projects for development of applications software, embedded applications, systems
software products, microprocessor based firmware products, and wireless & mobile application
products for variety of industries. We do custom offshore software product development and design for
healthcare & medical, insurance, financial and accounting, banking, manufacturing, telecom, utilities
and many more industries. From our inception we are also engaged heavily in offshore software
maintenance and support for all these industries to maintain and support their application software and
legacy systems. We contributed significantly in successful launching of many customers' software
products involving eCommerce & eBusiness applications, custom applications software, database
systems, ERP systems and more using Java, J2EE, JSP, .NET (Dot Net), Ajax, C++, C, Visual Basic
(VB), ASP, WebSphere, AS/400 iSeries System i, RPG, etc.
Due to globalization, supply chain, multi-sourcing and various other reasons today's business systems,
organizational structures and related software applications and eCommerce and eBusiness systems
became extremely complex and large in the last few years. As a result offshore software product
development, design and post development offshore software maintenance and support have also
become quite complex and challenging. Our software product designers and engineers are developing
custom software products starting from conceptualization, to product engineering to a fully workable

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software system or product, sometimes shrink wrapped, some times delivered over the Web and
Internet. In this whole software design and development cycle we use various technologies and
platforms from Linux, PHP, mySQL (LAMP) to Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, to traditional
Windows platforms. In the development process and methodology our software engineers and
developers have applied complex concepts and ideas through various programming languages and
utilities like C++, C, .NET (Dot Net), Ajax, Java, J2EE, ASP, JSP, databases, WebSphere and others.
Since the market became competitive and overly cost sensitive in the last few years, it has been
enormously important for organizations to develop software products within budget and on time. Many
companies lost market opportunities being unable to bring products on time to the market. SK
Associates LLC plays a critical role in helping you to achieve a high productivity and quality through
offshore software product development and design, and keep your organization continually profitable
by doing offshore software maintenance and support most economically in the following ways:

• SK Associates LLC can deliver a complete software, or firmware product starting only with an
informal feature specification.

• We provide you with a complete plan for your software application product design showing the
details of costs and expenses, description of individual features and functionalities, details of
deliveries, and long term maintenance & support plan.

• SK Associates LLC would help you to write a detailed product requirement specification and
detailed design, software life cycle design and management, and conduct usability study of
your existing software product, technical competitive analysis of your planned or existing
product.

• We implement, test and deliver a software product (in phases if necessary) in accordance to
your plan of deployment and launch of a new product, or new features and functionalities of an
existing software system and product.

• SK Associates LLC provides you with a planned installation support of your software product
at a customer site with a complete on-site or off-site support & maintenance plan during
deployment and on-going operations.

• We would help your software product design and delivery team in providing complete training
and education to your customers on-site or offsite.

• SK Associates LLC helps you in testing a software product in-house or offsite. The software
testing of your product includes integration testing with a third-party product or another
software system from your company.

• We also help you in creating a help-desk or support line during normal operations of a custom
software product, and managing day-to-day support and maintenance of your software product.

• SK Associates LLC provides full service for real time embedded systems design,
microprocessor design, device driver development, and embedded systems programming as
well as UNIX, Linux, PHP, mySQL, MS-Windows.

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Useful suggestions on custom offsite software product
development, design & offshore software maintenance support
Since software applications have been a significant part of our economy and any company's tangible
assets, delegating all decisions about its development to technical staff can be risky for executives.
Companies' general managers need to have a good grasp of the most effective methods for developing
and deploying software products and services throughout the organization. And it can be efficiently
achieved through offshore software product development and design approach, and can be
economically supported daily through offshore software maintenance and support methodology. A
recent study on effective ways to develop a software product reveals an important fact: The best
process is an evolutionary one. Focusing particularly on the areas of Internet or web based software
development, researchers uncovered four practices that generally lead to success:

• An early release of the evolving software product design to customers,

• Daily incorporation of new software code and rapid feedback on design changes,

• A team with broad-based experience of shipping multiple projects, and

• Major investments in the design of the product architecture.

Software product companies are continuously improving the development models:

• The Waterfall Model (a sequential process maintains a document trail)

• The Rapid-Prototyping Model (a disposable prototype helps establish customer preferences)

• The Spiral Model (a series of prototypes identifies major risks)

• The Incremental, or Staged-Delivery, Model (a system is delivered to customers in chunks)

• The Evolutionary-Delivery Model (iterative approach in which customers test an actual version
of the software)