Accelerating Healthcare Innovation with DevOps: Upcoming Twitter Chat

healthcare innovation twitter chat

When our friends at Healthcare IT TODAY asked Burwood to host a Twitter Chat, we couldn’t pass it up the opportunity! Join us on Friday, November 1 at 12:00 ET for an #HITsm Twitter Chat about the convergence of two of our favorite topics: Healthcare IT and DevOps.

Burwood Group hosts Nichole Gunderson (@nicholeg514) and Ed Keen (@EdKeen5) will facilitate a lively conversation about “Accelerating Healthcare Innovation with DevOps.” We’re thrilled to share the discussion questions here in advance.

About the Topic: Why Healthcare IT and DevOps?

The concept of DevOps is simple: eliminate the traditional barrier between your development and operations teams to create a single streamlined process for building, testing, and operating applications. In traditionally siloed teams, you might encounter vast differences between the way an application was built vs. expectations for maintaining it. DevOps eliminates this friction with unification.

DevOps is a fast-growing discipline across multiple industries – but what about healthcare? Agile methodology, automated testing, and ongoing improvement are foundational principles in DevOps. This type of process improvement could have great impact in the healthcare organization. Use cases like patient-facing application usage and leveraging data in patient care would benefit greatly from continual evaluation and improvement.

Join us for a discussion about accelerating healthcare innovation with DevOps. Is there potential? What are the challenges? And what use cases stand out?

Twitter Chat Topics (follow #HITsm on Twitter to participate!):

T1: Do you think DevOps is an important part of HIT strategy today? If yes, what benefits have you seen? #HITsm

T2: What types of custom software development projects are you seeing in healthcare delivery organizations? #HITsm

T3: How do you think DevOps can help with patient-facing applications? #HITsm

T4: How often do you release new software and features today? #HITsm

T5: Do you think DevOps faces adoption challenges in healthcare organizations? Why/why not? #HITsm

Bonus: Where do you think DevOps can make the maximum impact: virtual care, big data, or patient-facing mobile? #HITsm

Let’s chat on Friday, November 1 at 12:00 PM ET!


October 24, 2019