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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

Analyzing platform-driven transformation

In the previous sections, we discussed new systems for observing patients, driving decisions, and acting upon them. We talked about sensors and observers around the patient collecting data, allowing accurate diagnostics to be made by highly skilled practitioners and personal case management, assisted by simulations using ML and personalized medicine. These are all promising developments, but since we are discussing DevOps4Care, we must take Ops into careful consideration as well. Operations are critical in the delivery of end-to-end managed services for the sensors and other equipment, including apps and interfaces.

This is where models such as IT4IT come in. These models recognize the enabling platforms that must be managed and the product teams that develop and deploy the services on top of that platform. IT4IT uses value streams to identify and design the IT resources required to deliver end-to-end services based on the customer journey...