Ask HN: What's software engineering like in the health sector? Looking to make my first career move, just wondering what it's like and what to expect. I'd like to apply my skills there |
Ask HN: What's software engineering like in the health sector? Looking to make my first career move, just wondering what it's like and what to expect. I'd like to apply my skills there |
If you are manipulating personal information and patients data, and perhaps storing it, it's very very different whether you are in USA or Germany for example. The local laws and rules are very different. Germany is very strict while USA isn't at all.
In my personal experience, security and privacy are very important. The quality of service is also critical too, though the healthcare providers do have backups plans when a service is unavailable.
In terms of technologies, it's mostly the same than everywhere else. You can't really expect to have full stack medically certified software, including the kernels, the compilers, the vms... So you usually use the software industry standards and certify your service only.