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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

Including the Human Factor in Transformation

Learning in a group will accelerate understanding. Indeed MoM TiSH sends us to school and interacts with the others in the classroom.

In the previous chapter, we introduced the complexity of healthcare when it comes to the transformation into data-driven healthcare. However, we also promised to keep a hundred percent focus on the persons working on their or someone else’s health. How do we take human factors into consideration? What skills do care providers need in the ongoing digitalization of healthcare?

The theme for this chapter is viewpoints on human measure. Our transformation taskforce, including the system engineering architects and community builders in healthcare, will apply one golden rule to achieve this: it’s always about the patient and the people who care for them. Healthcare is about humans. How do we make sure that humans—patients, but also next of kin, social workers, and medical staff—...