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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

Defining a new way of organizing healthcare

We started this chapter with systems creating a lot of various data streams, causing the risk of information overload for care providers. Next, we explored possibilities to overcome this issue by developing new systems with the use of storytellers and creating autonomous working TEC teams that work OODA data-driven, based on the right data at the right time and place. New systems akin to cockpits and dashboards should enable decision-making based on specific datasets and workflows.

We have one more task to do, and that is to organize these data-driven autonomous TEC teams. This can be done in traditional organizations such as a nursing home or a hospital, or with a group of practitioners. However, we saw that cooperation and collaboration between teams of what are traditionally different and siloed organizations are increasingly required to create more value. Demolish the silos is a remark you’ll often hear when developing networked...