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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
12
Part 3: Applying TiSH – Architecting for Transformation in Sustainable Healthcare

Summary

This chapter served as an introduction to the methodologies that we will explore in more detail over the course of this book. These methodologies form the foundation of DevOps4Care and TiSH. We unpacked the complexity of the transformation by studying the policies and regulations that form the guardrails for provisioning healthcare first. We then discussed how we could transform healthcare by using DevOps principles. We learned that DevOps starts with the demands – the voice of the customer – and tries to translate these demands into specifications for products and services, including continuous feedback. These principles are also applicable to healthcare services. We also saw that we need different skills in healthcare to start this transformation.

The most important lesson is that we can use DevOps and other methods to start creating real value for the patient. The key is the integration of care value streams, as opposed to acting on addressing one specific...