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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

Introducing human-centric IT

In the previous chapter, we stated that digital transformation requires new disciplines. We introduced systems engineering (SE) and community building as skills for our transformation taskforce team. But what about the digital and other skills of the personnel within the care organizations and other stakeholders? In this chapter, we will eventually conclude that we need new roles in healthcare to get the transformation executed in practice. An e-nurse—to put it simply, a nurse with specific digital skills—is such a role. But also remember the e-doctor from the Nearklinikken. We will come to speak about this later in this chapter from both an engineering approach and a community-building approach.

Starting with engineering, let’s get back to the basic principles of development-operations (DevOps). Companies that adopt DevOps work with autonomous tools that are end-to-end (E2E) responsible for the development and operations of a product...