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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)
1
Part 1: Introducing Digital Transformation in Healthcare
7
Part 2: Understanding and Working with Shared Mental Models
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Empowering transformation teams

Who is doing the architecting? What is preferable to the TEC teams themselves is to be coached by engineers and consultants and empowered by DevOps4Care. DevOps is about involving all stakeholders. DevOps4Care is for care as the main stakeholder using DevOps to design quick and flexible solutions, becoming even faster and more responsive to the needs of care. This requires automation and a standardized approach to applying DevOps. In IT, we use methodologies such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Although both methodologies focus on the development of software, we can use these principles in DevOps4Care, too.

In TDD, first, we define the test based on the requirements. Next, the tests are run. This will lead to failures since not every feature has been included yet. The initial tests are meant to fail: this will provide the data to build the product to the exact specifications and fix all the bugs during the...