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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

Shaping the journey for care teams and patients

The journey is one of continual health over a full lifetime. Already in Chapter 2, Exploring Relevant Technologies for Healthcare, we defined the Health eXperience (HeX) as the continuation of health and the services around it. These services optimize the HeX for as high a number of patients or clients that a care team can attend to as possible. Demand is driven in terms of improving health, lifestyle, and participation. This is done with flexible resources and a broad range of available technology-based support services. Services are coordinated within the ecosystem micro-communities. This requires activities and interactions between those activities.

With the OODA activities in mind, we need a way to structure the stories we get from the work floor. A structure derived from the HeX and health journeys, triggered by events in the health condition, is built on the interactions in the touchpoints within these journeys. We introduce...