IT Industry Vet Doug Wagoner Joins AEGIS Advisory Board

AEGIS is happy to announce that Mr. Doug Wagoner is now a member of our Advisory Board. Mr. Wagoner is our second Board member joining Dr. Barry West. Mr. Wagoner retired as Sector President and corporate officer with SAIC in 2017. He was responsible for the delivery of SAIC’s solutions and its 15,500 employees. He […]

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ONC Interop Forum Highlights Data Quality, Testing

Last week, several of us from the AEGIS team attended ONC’s third annual Interoperability Forum at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC. We were pleased to see the level of excitement and even optimism about the industry’s progress toward achieving true interoperability among systems using electronic health information. We continue to see the involvement of […]

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Barry West

Dr. Barry West Joins AEGIS Advisory Board

AEGIS is pleased to announced that Dr. Barry West has joined our newly formed Advisory Board as its founding member. Dr. West, who has been engaged with us all summer in a strategic consulting role agreed to anchor our new board and help us advance our new strategic initiatives. With his assistance, we will be […]

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AEGIS adds Jason Hannah as newest VP

AEGIS is excited to announce that Jason Hannah has joined us as our newest Vice President. In this role, Mr. Hannah will oversee growth strategy for products and services, marketing and communications, proposal and teaming and long-term business growth planning. To  support that growth strategy, Mr. Hannah brings over 20 years of operational experience as […]

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Why Software Testing Needs Independence

We all know at least one person – who may or may not be considered a hypochondriac – who self-diagnoses his or her own health maladies. We sometimes know them well enough they will admit that, when they go the doctor and the doctor runs her own tests, the diagnosis is quite different. I’ll be the […]

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AEGIS Retains CMMI ML3 Ratings

We are very happy once again to announce that our recent CMMI SCAMPI Class A appraisal results are now official. We were appraised as continuing to operate at Maturity Level 3 in two constellations – Development (DEV) and Services (SVC) including Service System Development (+SSD). This was our third ML3 appraisal for SVC+SSD and our fourth […]

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Clubbing the Stigma of Mental Illness

On October 30, 2018, AEGIS once again lent our heartfelt support to Beacon Health Options and their annual charity golf tournament in support of the National Military Family Association (NMFA). Returning to Bayville in Virginia Beach, we provided Recovery level sponsorship, hosting the 18th hole, and entered a fearsome foursome of players. Mario Hyland and […]

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Dammit, Jim, I’m a Doctor Not an EHR Software Tester!

Have you seen ONC’s latest challenge? I was all ready to ease into a long Memorial Day weekend when I saw the news, now I’m annoyed. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has identified a problem with end users of EHR software needing to report concerns they observe while using the system. […]

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CMMI 2.0 Brings Big Changes

The CMMI Institute’s annual conference, Capability Counts, was held this year on May 1-2 in Reston, VA. The major news that I anticipated was the formal rolling out of CMMI 2.0. The new version of the model – the first major release since the original version 1.1 debuted in 2002 – is also the first […]

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Bipartisan Report Promotes Testing Tools and Standards for Interoperability

Just in time for HIMSS 18, the Bipartisan Policy Center and Health IT Now have published a new report, The Future Role of Government in Health Information Technology and Digital Health, that assess efforts to date by the federal government to improve health IT. The National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Don Rucker, spoke this […]

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