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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

Exploring the possibilities of AI, IoT, and robotics

The platform of communities and systems that we foresee are using a combination of different technologies. In fact, no single technology will be a game-changer on its own. They have to be integrated, as demonstrated in the following figure:

Figure 2.5 – Integrating technologies

However, IoT, AI, and robotics do bring more traditional technologies together to perform far more than each technology could on its own. Interoperability and Integration (I&I) are keys that we will address in Chapter 3, Unfolding the Complexity of Transformation.

We will keep that in mind in the following exploration of the three selected technologies, along with the fact that there are far more technologies that are used in healthcare.

The possibilities of AI

AI is perceived to be a game-changer in healthcare. In the previous section, we briefly talked about the major cloud providers that have developed specific...