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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

Applying OODA feedback loops to create transformative platforms

We have learned that OODA is our shared mental model for looking at medical processes and how the activities of the enabling teams in micro-enterprises are executed and connected via workflows. We also learned how data processing can be mapped using OODA. Together, they provide the structure for the stories to be told as input for DevOps. However, remember Chapter 6, Applying the Panarchy Principle, to take the state of mind into account, and the use of CAFCR and QFD development methods, as explained in Chapter 5, Leveraging TiSH as Toolkit for Common Understanding.

Having said that, DevOps translates these stories into modular microservice architectures and shared platforms, as already common in IT. With the use of modern cloud functionality, organizations can plan resources dynamically: they use the resources when needed and only pay for these resources when they are used. If resources are no longer required, they...