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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

Working toward automated DevOps4Care

We started this chapter by looking at the reasoning framework, reflecting on TiSH and the models that we have used so far. In this section, we will learn how to use reasoning with this when working with DevOps4Care for each tread and building block on the TiSH value stairway.

In Chapter 4, Including the Human Factor in Transformation, we introduced the concept of user stories and the storytellers themselves as part of the 4Care part. We learned how to build a user story as a way to describe the desire of the patient and its caregivers, and what the user does or must do to achieve a certain goal.

To build the user story, we use the experience of the user, their circumstances, and the goal we want to achieve. From that user story, we derive the needs and, subsequently, set objectives and requirements to define how we must fulfill the goal and what a particular service or product should look like. In the case of the highest value tread, we consider...