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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

Creating New Platforms with OODA

As our knowledge and experience grow, we see patterns emerging. A MoM TiSH will now introduce us to Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA).

You are halfway through this book. The first half consisted of breaking down the complexity of transformation into most of the building blocks of TiSH. Now, we can start composing the transformation from the bottom up, filling in the blanks, and designing the enabling platform. When we think of platforms, we need a common ground – a shared mental model – on which to build new healthcare structures in a community. In this chapter, we will explore the main shared mental model, OODA, as the foundation of a healthcare transformation enabled by technology.

We will elaborate on OODA as a novel way to drive transformation with its feedback loops. In this chapter, the building blocks from TiSH will be put to use in the transformation of sustainable healthcare by creating disruptive platforms that enable teams...