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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

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Understanding (the Need for) Transformation, provides a broad introduction to the book, exploring the various challenges that healthcare faces, such as an aging population and scarcity of skilled staff.

Chapter 2, Exploring Relevant Technologies for Healthcare, explores the combined possibilities of new technologies, but always from the health experience perspective.

Chapter 3, Unfolding the Complexity of Transformation, is where we learn about the policies and regulations that form guardrails in healthcare and how this affects the transformation.

Chapter 4, Including the Human Factor in Transformation, is where we learn how to prevent humans – patients and care workers – from getting lost in regulations, systems, technology, and data. We must find a balance between man and machine.

Chapter 5, Leveraging TiSH as Toolkit for Common Understanding, provides an introduction to TiSH and DevOps4Care, including the underlying models and methods.

Chapter 6, Applying the Panarchy Principle, is about community building using ecocycles to overcome inhibitions and start planning the actual transformation.

Chapter 7, Creating New Platforms with OODA, introduces and teaches you how to work with the OODA loop as a way to drive the transformation using feedback loops.

Chapter 8, Learning How Interaction Works in Technology-Enabled Care Teams, introduces the Journey Interaction Matrix (JIM), where we can follow the teams and monitor the activities throughout the health journey and interact with other teams in the ecosystem.

Chapter 9, Working with Complex (System of) Systems, is where we learn how to create a common understanding of how to integrate and transform into personal directed healthcare with the relevant solutions and systems, tread by tread in TiSH.

Chapter 10, Assessments with TiSH, is where we learn to perform assessments in healthcare, all in preparation for the transformation. For this, maturity models are introduced.

Chapter 11, Planning, Designing, and Architecting the Transformation, is where we put it all together, the concepts of TiSH and JIM, working with OODA loops, and forming the teams, and really start executing the transformation.

Chapter 12, Executing the Transformation, includes real-world examples of companies that have gone through a transformation. It ends with a big invitation to join the digital transformation of healthcare and help shape the future.