DevOps to help revolutionize their healthcare practices.

• Improving efficiency.Developing applications and healthcare services is a critical process to deliver new healthcare solutions. However, this process must be managed properly so that you don’t experience vast amounts of resources sprawl. DevOps offers ways to leverage resources much more efficiently

• Implementing security models.This part is really cool. Remember, DevOps isn’t just application development. Rather, it’s the delivery of advanced services and capabilities done through a powerful and continuous processes.You literally have the capability to create a blockchain method to securely process and transfer PHI/PII and change the way patient data can be secured. If you’re worried about a lack of cryptographic skillsets, know that DevOps organizations are already creating these types of solutions for global financial institutions. In the healthcare world, security is paramount. And, DevOps can help create new types of security models above and beyond the methods we’ve been using for years.

• Data capacity.This part is really cool. We’re constantly creating data. Of course, we can process all of it – but there is a lot that’s actually valuable. DevOps in the healthcare world can help create sets of APIs, which abstract data and position them to be leveraged by applications, services, and even secured cloud providers.

• From there, you can build AI engines which help with patient engagement and even improve patient portals.

• Plus, can you imagine what an AI or machine learning engine can do for population health? If you’re a distributed healthcare organization with locations throughout the country, you need to look at DevOps as a real option to help you create powerful health outcomes for groups of individuals.

• These types of solutions can help you gather data and make better decisions as measured by health status indicators and as influenced by social, economic, and physical environments, personal health practices, individual capacity and coping skills, human biology, early childhood development, and health services. DevOps is here to build platforms to help aggregate these data points and leverage data even further.

Data-driven approach

Although the process of extracting accurate and meaningful insights from healthcare data can be challenging, the opportunity to convert data-driven findings into relevant critical insights and deliver improved patient care is tantamount to moving medicine forward in the modern age. As patient data continues to grow at an exponential rate, healthcare providers have turned to DevOps in an effort to accelerate their complex big data project deployments.

With a variety of data sources ranging from Electronic Health Records (EHRs), medical devices, pharmacies and lab reports, to insurance claims, comes the need to structure, update and analyse that data for effective and improved healthcare delivery. The deployment delays associated with a traditional software development life cycle can significantly raise the cost and affect the overall usability of the project.

DevOps in healthcare offers an alternative to traditional software development, improving and accelerating the implementation of big data tools. By combining development with operations teams, DevOps employs practices to automate processes that historically have been manual and slow. Backed by processes that facilitate speed with frequency and pace, DevOps enables operational efficiencies, transforming how data-driven applications are designed, built and delivered.The advantages of pairing big data with DevOps far outweigh any integration challenges.

The ability to leverage DevOps in the analysis of big data healthcare sets can help providers reduce treatment costs, predict outbreaks of epidemics, avoid preventable diseases and improve patient quality of care and outcomes.