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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

Throughout this book, we drew the plans, formed the teams, and defined a good strategy using TiSH, putting it together into a transformation program. This resulted in an architecture for achieving sustainable healthcare. We addressed some of the most common pitfalls and how to avoid or mitigate these. In this final chapter, we illustrated this transformation with real-life examples, through the stories of people doing the actual transformations.

This chapter was a full recap of everything we have learned, but it focused on how to apply the principles of DevOps. In essence, DevOps is about setting an ambition and then iterating toward that ambition while learning from every step we take. The OODA loops and eco cycles are a perfect way of learning and overcoming inhibitions. Technology plays an important role in transforming healthcare, but it all starts with the patients and the caregivers who need to work with the technology. Throughout this book, we have been emphasizing...