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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 complexity

In the first two chapters, we introduced TiSH and the upper four treads consisting of networked care. We learned about case management, stepped care, integrated care, and directed care. Each tread introduced more technology for digitization such as robotics, IoT, and AI to get closer to the optimum health experience. The complexity increases rapidly with each tread. But what is complexity?

Luckily, defining complexity is not so complex if we involve system engineers. Complexity in our context is the characteristics and resulting behavior of the healthcare system in which many components with multiple relations interact in multiple ways and follow certain guardrails and guidelines. It would suffice for us to concentrate on the characteristics of components and the relations and interactions between the components for now. What can we learn from systems engineers?

Complexity emerges from the many possible interactions. This follows the essence of the definition...