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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 ecocycles and panarchy

The metaphor of the rollercoaster needs some more definition to be practical; we need to know more than that it could be a bumpy ride ahead. Therefore, we must introduce the generic ecocycle model to determine people’s and the organization’s state of mind:

Figure 6.2 – The adaptive ecocycle

This ecocycle can be viewed as a rollercoaster, which consists of the following four states of mind:

  • Maturity: Things are continuing as usual; there’s no need for change
  • Decompose: The old has to go; something new is needed
  • Renewal: New ideas are explored
  • Birth: New ideas are put into practice and grow toward the new normal

There are also two inhibition points. The inhibition point on the right denotes not letting go of the old. People feel that something has to change but do not make the step to do so. The inhibition point on the left denotes not deciding to invest in the new way...