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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

Defining interactions in activities

To get input for the platform development process, the Dev in DevOps, the task force organizes sessions to collect the stories from the potential users. The task force gives the care providers the opportunity to share what they need for their activities at certain touchpoints in the health journey.

For a common understanding, the OODA model is used. To get a structured story, we introduce the JIM. This is used to reason about the possibilities and formulate stories. These structured stories are used in the development process for the exploration of solutions and subsequent Quality Functional Deployment (QFD) and specifications, as explained in Chapter 5, Leveraging TiSH as Toolkit for Common Understanding.

Let’s find out what the input for Dev is.

To achieve this, you could rely on generic metaphors, such as the village of blind people encountering an elephant and trying to describe it. However, it then still doesn’t necessarily...