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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

Starting the modeling for human-centric transformation

Transforming is about having sufficient insights into the complexity of transformation to be able to plan the next step with reasonable safety to handle the risks of not being able to predict everything. These risks are worth it because of the values to be gained, as depicted in Figure 3.4.

This means we need models to get insights into the complexity and models to use those insights to transform healthcare. We are going to fill the building blocks of the TiSH framework with these models and build up the embracement of complexity through common understanding tread by tread. This will be from the individual, team, and organization tiers and scales to the provisioning of care, health, lifestyle, and participation tiers and scales.

We use the Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE) complexity pyramid in Figure 3.6, along with the DevOps4Care process steps, to get a better understanding of how all the models relate to each other...