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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
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Defining the transformation strategy

With the changes in individuals, teams, and organizations covered, we also need specialists in the strategy of networked care. The strategy for sustainable healthcare with digital means implies that we need a TEC platform consisting of technology and the teams and communities using this technology. We need a TEC platform with modern architectures that is flexible and agile, suitable for the DevOps way of working, and that consists of reusable components from earlier treads. In technical architecture, we would refer to this as microservices – loosely coupled components that communicate with other services through interfaces. Microservices do not stand on themselves. They are all part of an ecosystem. An ecosystem exists through collaboration. So, a mature architecture is an architecture that enables collaboration in the communities. This is also true for the TEC platform.

This is only realized in a situation where user and stakeholder stories...