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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

Applying OODA to transformation – an exercise

We ended the previous chapter with our example of a care provider deciding to set up a transformation program. Just launching another project does not solve their experienced dilemmas. This urgency calls for a transformation. We learned how to do that by setting up a task force with the appropriate disciplines, including systems engineers and community builders, along with the care workers.

The main task is to create a common understanding between the disciplines. A common understanding can be created with shared mental models. One is that transformation is done tread by tread along the TiSH staircase and its building blocks. The other is a patient-obsessive approach. We must make sure that the moments of truth in the interactions within the patient’s ecosystem are the key activities, which we learned to define with the Journey Interaction Matrix (JIM).

In Chapter 7, Creating New Platforms with OODA, we introduced the...