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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 and applying the building blocks

As a transformation task force, we know we have to bridge the three perspectives of provisioning healthcare, enabling the community, and implementing technology platforms with a shared mental model that is understood by medical or social staff, community builders, and systems engineers.

In Figure 5.10 of Chapter 5, Leveraging TiSH as Toolkit for Common Understanding, we presented the building blocks of the TiSH value stairway with some blanks still to fill in. In this chapter, we discuss how OODA will form the principle-of shared mental model to integrate these building blocks. In later chapters, we will use the OODA shared mental model for a common understanding to define the blanks and integrate the building blocks into TiSH.

Let’s start creating the OODA shared mental model. In the following figure, we can see the building blocks arranged around OODA:

Figure 7.1 – OODA’s central shared...