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Transforming Healthcare with DevOps

By : Jeroen Mulder, Henry Mulder
Book Image

Transforming Healthcare with DevOps

By: Jeroen Mulder, Henry Mulder

Overview of this book

Healthcare today faces a multitude of challenges, which can be summed up as the barriers architects and consultants face in transforming the healthcare system into a more sustainable one. This book helps you to guide that transformation step by step. You’ll begin by understanding the need for this transformation, exploring related challenges, the possibilities of technology, and how human factors can be involved in digital transformation. The book will enable you to overcome inhibitions and plan various transformation steps using the Transformation into Sustainable Healthcare (TiSH) model and DevOps4Care. Next, you’ll use the observe, orient, decide, and act (OODA) loop as an iterative approach to address all stakeholders and adapt swiftly when situations change. Further, you’ll be able to build shared platforms that enable interaction between various stakeholders, including the technology-enabled care service teams. The final chapters will help you execute the transformation to sustainable healthcare using the knowledge you’ve gained while getting familiar with common pitfalls and learning how to avoid or mitigate them. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and directions of solutions and be on your way toward starting the transformation into sustainable healthcare.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Introducing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
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Part 2: Understanding and Working with Shared Mental Models
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Exploring the roles of team members and patients

Now, why is it important to define roles from the perspective of OODA? We already saw that we have various actors defining actions based on observations and orientations, leading to decisions. These actors can perform optimally when they have access to the right tools and data. Care is optimized when actors work together in the chain or network of care, using the right tools and data, as it is integrated into that chain. The interactions in the activities in the chain define the care and the execution of the activities by the right actors defines the quality of the care. Actors and activities need to be able to interact.

Roles need classification in order to be assigned the right attributes, to be identified properly, and to get access to the right resources in terms of the closed OODA loops along the journey.

We therefore use a known way of working in healthcare in which the OODA loop is intrinsically present – social alarming...