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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

Defining the transformation plan

We ended the previous chapter with an example: a care provider deciding to set up a transformation plan. Simply launching another project does not solve the problems experienced. The urgency calls for a transformation.

The dilemmas they encountered are twofold: the contradiction of collaborating with other care providers, resulting in less revenue, and creating the collaboration in the first place while not having enough development resources to create the digital outreach process for patients in their community. Still, the bottom line is that fulfilling the health needs of the population will be valued. The question is how does this translate into real revenue for the organization? And how does digitalization fit into this equation?

To set up the transformation plan, we can use the transposed maturity board of Table 10.1, resulting in the following table, which gives a constructive foundation to measure progress:

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