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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 next steps – building transformative resources

Organizing Transformation Events in practice needs preparation. Using the iceberg model of systems thinking depicted as follows, one has to learn the use of models as presented in TiSH; internalize them into Mental models; and explore them jointly, becoming Shared Mental models; then apply these in Community Structures like Ecosystem Micro Enterprises and plan Patterns of Chance using OODA.

Figure 12.5 – Transformation Iceberg

Figure 12.5 – Transformation Iceberg

With this sequence in mind, the next step is to get access to the required skills of systems engineering and community builders. It’s here that we invite anyone with experience in these fields but who is not yet involved in healthcare to connect to the healthcare transformation community. Increasing their involvement will increase the speed of healthcare transformation.

Then, they must join forces in developing automated DevOps. Making the tools to...