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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 principles to TiSH

We will start this section with a general remark that applies to almost every transformation, but specifically to digital transformation. Typically, technology moves faster than the organizations that need to adopt the technology. Healthcare is no exception to this rule. However, transformation is a journey. It requires a plan and planning to get where you want to be as an individual, team, organization, or network, which helps you define what you need to complete the journey. That’s where the TiSH staircase comes in: it describes the different transitions in that journey.

With every transition to a new tread, we must prioritize, balance, and consider viewpoints while focusing on the bigger picture, which is the ultimate goal that we are trying to achieve. Let’s take the necessary steps.

The challenge is that DevOps development and releasing the new technology will potentially be faster than the adoption of that technology...