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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

Cross-walking integration and interoperability relations

In Chapter 3, Unfolding the Complexity of Transformation, we first mentioned the terms interoperability and integration. Remember Figure 3.5 – Structuring governance in healthcare systems. Interoperability matters a lot to us. It’s even the foundation for the transformation. Think of it as the HeX being created around touchpoints and interaction in each journey, this implicitly means that interoperability enables these interactions. The interoperability we are talking about is that between the OODA activities. These activities are overarching organizations and teams.

Using the ERD of Figure 9.7, we can describe the enabling entities step by step from components via systems to System of Systems and explore two essential topics: the interoperability and data domains and enabling integration along the ERD relations.

Understanding interoperability in data domains

Infrastructure must be interoperable from day...