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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

Building the Technology-Enabled Care (TEC) teams

With the JIM at our disposal, we can define the interactions between teams in terms of OODA activities. In the following figure, we added the JIM to the third tread of TiSH. This enables a care organization to define the care processes in OODA activities and have the required capacity within each team to provide the requested care to patients. Given this capacity, the teams have to be integrated into the activities of other teams when involved in networked care.

Figure 9.1 – Interactions between TEC teams and their (OODA) activities

We are not going to describe the professional medical or social procedures, but rather a strategy for the generic functionality and characteristics of how to integrate the different care teams in the following types of care networks we defined previously:

  • In ad hoc networks, case management needs to know what the other care providers are doing. The actions of other...