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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

Applying the Panarchy Principle

Acquiring knowledge at school is one thing, but we also have to learn what the real world is like. MoM TiSH introduces us to the dynamics of society.

So far, we have discussed the need for transformation, a platform, a transformation task force, and new skills in systems engineering and community building disciplines in this task force. We filled our toolbox to model this transformation. However, to be effective, this requires getting everyone on the same page regarding the shared mental models so that they can move from one tread to the next.

In this chapter, we will look at community building. The engineering and medicine disciplines in the task force need to understand the dynamics of community building and how to take it into account when designing new technology-enabled care platforms.

Where we pointed to INCOSE for great resources on systems engineering, we will also refer to the systems innovation network for community building. First...