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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

Understanding and defining the assessments with TiSH

Maturity models are one instrument to plan or influence transformation, by determining where we stand today and where we want to go. The most well-known maturity model is the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which basically defines at what level organizations have matured in software development. However, CMM is used more widely than just in software development, and frankly, the principles of CMM are quite commonly used in other terrains as well.

As you can see in the following diagram, the TiSH staircase has been inspired by it.

Figure 10.1 – The five levels of the CMM

The basic level of the maturity model is Initial. At this level, processes are not well defined. Outcomes are unpredictable since processes are poorly controlled and highly reactive. The next level in CMM is Managed. In CMM, it means that processes are defined per project but still very reactive. Even worse, since they are defined...