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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

Integrating TEC teams with patient-centric networks

Integrating the TEC teams means interaction between the OODA activities, at least the internal activities and especially the OODA activities in networked care. We need nurses, therapists, practitioners, and doctors in the teams to be interoperable. We also need to enable supporting staff to manage the services to create the Health eXperience (HeX) journeys.

Although this integration is on the medical side, it must also be realized on the enabling technical side. To be able to build understanding on both sides, we present an overview of the entities on both sides in the following figure:

Figure 9.7 – Entity relation diagram for journeys, providers, and the enablers

To be able to translate the integration and interoperability into enabling services of the platform, we need to recognize the care provisioning entities in the upper part and the enabling entities in the lower part. The awareness of these...