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

Recognizing TiSH and DevOps4Care in actual transformations

Now that we’ve introduced the 4C and OODA loop relationships, including the hierarchical tiers of decision-making, we can complete the building blocks of the TiSH staircase, starting from the upper tier of participation.

In terms of the ICF model, the major life areas are work, education or community, and social and civic life activities. The outlook on this participation will result in decisions on the lifestyle tier surrounding activities such as mobility, learning, and general tasks within the environmental factors. Think of working conditions – the health tier is about the body’s functions and structures in terms of the physical, mental, and intellectual functioning of people.

The following diagram shows the entire model with all the building blocks:

Figure 12.4 – TiSH staircase with all its building blocks

Depending on which tier will take responsibility, the network...