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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)
1
Part 1: Introducing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
7
Part 2: Understanding and Working with Shared Mental Models
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Understanding the value of care with DevOps principles

The commonly used definition of DevOps is a set of practices that combines development (dev) and operations (ops), typically referring to software development. The goal is to shorten the development life cycle of digital products, whilst maintaining high quality by integrating continuous feedback from the end users.  

The most essential rules are listed as follows:

  • Customer-centric action: Solutions and products are developed with the customer in mind – not only in mind but in some form of co-creation with the customer and users.
  • Create with the end result in mind: What will a solution do or what will a product look like when it’s completely finished? How will it be experienced?
  • Continuous improvement: A solution or a product is not a one-off thing but must be improved in every iteration.

The DevOps processes and how these are integrated into a continuous cycle are shown in the following...