S&P Consultants, Vedant Enter Into Partnership

S&P Consultants and Vedant has entered into a business partnership, which to offer quality- and patient-safety assurance to both standard and customised applications built on the Cerner Millennium platform. Both companies have particular expertise in the Cerner Millennium environment, with S&P providing a broad range of consulting services and Vedant offering TestStream, a comprehensive suite of software testing and validation solutions for systems of all levels of complexity and scale.

The partnership will enable S&P to utilise the Vedant testing tools to market, utilise and develop customised quality-governance configurations for Cerner Millennium applications. In addition, Cerner users will now be able to validate both their standard and customised Cerner Millennium database builds utilising S&P configurations within Vedant’s Scenario Definition product.

Andrew Splitz, president and CEO of S&P Consultants, said: “We are excited about this new collaboration with Vedant, especially when incorporating TestStream into our Cerner Millennium implementations, version upgrades and Blood Bank validations. We will be able to quickly and accurately provide complete database and application functionality validation, allowing our clinical staff to focus even more closely on client application design and clinical department workflow.

Although standard Cerner Millennium implementations require one to three version upgrades during the life cycle of the migration, the Vedant solutions will reduce the time and resources required for the project stop and new code validation cycle. With this partnership, unit, functional, system and integration testing can all be customized according to clients’ specific settings and workflows. Our partnership allows clients to fully leverage Cerner Millennium’s extensive workflow customisation capabilities, assuring the optimal patient experience.

The partnership also provides for customised TestStream-based Blood Bank validation configuration libraries, which dramatically reduce client resource burdens during validations. Similarly, S&P will now be able to validate the database, application functionality and client workflows, drastically cutting the time it takes to complete version upgrades from two to four months to only four to six weeks.