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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

For the human factor, we learned that the Activity Theory gives us a clear point of view from people’s perspectives of digital transformation. Caregivers in healthcare face a growing risk of information overload. We must create systems that allow professionals to swiftly come to the right decisions, taken jointly with and for the patient. We studied a new way of SE, focusing on UX and limiting the number of interactions between humans and systems. HSI is an architecting and engineering methodology to achieve this.

Next, these systems must be continuously improved. The same applies to processes and workflows. In this chapter, we further introduced DevOps4Care. We addressed the role of real-life storytellers to realize a process where feedback is continuously looped back into the requirements for systems, workflows, and processes, with the goal of improving the patient’s life. We’ve studied OODA, to organize data-driven care teams. OODA teaches us how...