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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
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Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Summary

In this chapter, we learned what maturity models are and how we can use them to define the maturity level of organizations and teams, and also how to set an ambition to reach the next level. In order to define maturity, we must do assessments. Basically, we should know where we’re coming from if we want to determine where we are going – the very essence of any transformation. We learned to use the models in assessments from a checklist, scaling questions, appreciative assessments, and how to plot results on prescriptive maturity models such as CMM and HIMMS.

We learned how to look at maturities of different aspects and sizes to plan for a program of transformation projects. We can define actions to identify the inhibition points and utilize them as much as possible. As a result, we can make a balanced program of ideation, prototypes, pilots, and large-scale deployment projects.

In the final section, we introduced the ecosystem micro-communities and learned...