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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

Understanding technology in complex systems

Healthcare is, almost by default, not delivered through integrated systems because of different policies and regulations and the variety of technologies. That variety and the lack of integration slows down innovation and transformation in healthcare. How do we change that? This is where the rationale behind the SoS concept becomes relevant to use in the platform that we want to develop as part of our transformation. In other words, to address the complexity of various systems, we need to understand the interoperability of these systems.

Integrating systems or components means that they must connect where they’re supposed to. Think of Lego© blocks put together. The blocks are interoperable. The blocks fit together by design. Being able to integrate systems around people needing health attention requires paying the same attention to interoperability.

Interoperability often refers to the ability of computer systems or software...