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When your users are physicians and nurses, they don't have time to sit in meetings explaining what they want out of an application or to wade through documents validating requirements. Patient care is their number one priority.

To get over that obstacle, the development team at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center relies on a simulation tool. Using iRise's visualization tool, physicians and nurses can see what the application will look like based on requirements given and quickly change or validate those requirements.
Those applications are part of an electronic medical record (EMR) system that the cancer center has been working on for the past three years, after they could not find a packaged application that met the hospital's unique needs. Sherry Preston, manager of EMR support and development at the center, called the project a work in progress that will continue to evolve.

Author: Michelle Davidson