Go-Live Testing
Practical guides for healthcare IT go-lives — payer integration, EHR upgrades, pre-launch checklists, and what goes wrong.
Healthcare System Cutover Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step approach to planning a healthcare system cutover — sequencing, rollback criteria, communication plans, and what to monitor in the first 72 hours.
Healthcare EDI Go-Live Checklist: 20 Things to Test Before Launch
A complete pre-go-live EDI testing checklist for healthcare implementation teams — 20 scenarios that catch the failures most teams discover on launch day.
How to Validate X12 EDI Files Before Payer Submission
A complete guide to X12 EDI file validation — structural validation, HIPAA compliance checks, payer-specific rules, and tools for pre-submission testing.
How to Test Clearinghouse Connectivity Before Healthcare Go-Live
A step-by-step guide to validating clearinghouse connectivity — enrollment, test submissions, acknowledgment loops, and common configuration failures.
Healthcare IT Go-Live War Room: What to Prepare and Monitor
How to set up and run an effective EDI go-live war room — what to monitor, who should be present, escalation paths, and how to recover from common failures.
Payer EDI Testing Environments: What You Need to Know
A guide to working with payer EDI testing environments — enrollment, test IDs, limitations, and how to supplement with synthetic data for full scenario coverage.
Payer Integration Testing: A Go-Live Checklist for EDI Implementation Teams
A practical pre-go-live checklist covering claim submission, remittance, eligibility, prior auth, and the envelope-level checks most teams miss.
Why Healthcare IT Go-Lives Fail — And How to Fix the Testing Problem
The majority of healthcare IT go-live failures trace back to the same root cause: teams could not test with realistic data before they went live.