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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 the role of major technology providers

Technology providers are enablers – with the technology that these companies develop, they can support medical staff and patients. We have seen in the previous section that the existence of technical protocols such as FHIR and DICOM doesn’t solve the challenges of I & I by themselves. Technology is not a magic wand.

However, we are seeing the role of these providers grow and they are having more impact. With an in-depth understanding of clinical processes, they develop technology that professionals and patients can use intuitively for medical purposes.

There’s a major shift happening. Technology providers are no longer just an enabler. They are transforming into drivers of innovation as well as transformation. How did this evolve? To start with, money plays a huge role in this. Innovation means investing and that’s what these technology companies can do. These firms simply have deep pockets...