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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

Unfolding the Complexity of Transformation

To get more understanding, playing with toys is not enough, we need to learn the complexities. MoM TiSH will lead us to some education on complexity.

The theme for this chapter is defining the complexity of healthcare. In the first two chapters, we saw that healthcare is subject to huge changes and that requires transformation. Transformation is complex and requires new disciplines to address it and realize the desired platform. We introduced the systems engineers and community builders needed for this in the transformation task force.

Systems engineers need to define the complexity of networked care using the decomposition and classification of less complex components. This chapter will provide you with models for describing the complexity characteristics of networked care on the development path toward higher treads in the transformation and describe how it affects all the systems in the healthcare sector.

We will learn about the...