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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
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Exploring the impact of digitization

To understand the impact of digitization, first, we have to study a worldwide model in medicine: the ICF.

Note

The ICF online browser can be found at https://icd.who.int/dev11/l-icf/en. This ICF browser is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) and endorsed by all member states. More information can be found at https://www.who.int/standards/classifications/who-fic-maintenance.

There’s no need for medical training to comprehend it. In the following diagram, the ICF model describes how health conditions influence people and to what extent they can participate in society, given a specific condition:

Figure 2.1 – The rearranged ICF model

Health is not just about the physical or mental condition; ICF also looks at health from a social perspective – for example, how well they fit into their community. The model shows how the overall health condition is defined by body functions and structures...