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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

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on the members of the different TEC teams and their interactions. We explored the roles and tasks of these teams and how they can support the patient during the health journey. These teams operate in ecosystems – hence, they need to be interoperable and interact with different actors in the entire health journey that provides the health experience for the patient. The teams are supported by technology, so we must ensure that operations are in place to assist the teams in working with technology and help whenever an issue occurs. Lastly, the technology needs to be improved per evolving demands and the requirements of the patient. This is exactly what DevOps4Care envisions.

In this chapter, we introduced the JIM. By answering the questions why, when, where, and which, the right care is defined. Obviously, this is done by observing the patient and orienting the situation or circumstances, the steps we discussed in the OODA loop.

We discussed...