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THE NEED FOR AGILE HEALTHCARE Adopting agile can help healthcare organisations adapt to the changing needs of patients, regulations and technology without the need for organisation-level restructuring n this era of ever-changing external factors, such as regulatory guidelines and new emerging technologies, healthcare organisations need to be responsive, nimble and able to seize the opportunity more than ever to be able to provide the highest level of patient care while staying in profitable business. Being agile will be an increasingly critical capability moving forward, considering the industry’s turbulence, complexity and accelerating speed of change. In this environment, healthcare leaders must choose to lead the pursuit of greater agility or risk being left behind.
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WHAT IS AGILE/AGILITY? Agility is our ability to respond to change. The world around us is changing faster
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than ever. For a business to succeed, what is often known as ‘business agility’ is most important. Business agility is responding to changing customer demand, market conditions, new technology entrants and even legislation or customer perceptions. Keeping one step ahead of the game requires the ability to respond swiftly to the changes when needed. There’s a fine line between chaos and carefully deviating from the plan in a considered way to meet changing demands. This is where agile comes in. Agile is a bunch of tools and techniques that help us achieve agility Agile is not a new term, it’s just the extension of the way organisations have worked in the past. For example, planning
PALLAVI KUMAR SENIOR ANALYST PROGRAMMER NHS Pallavi is a senior software development professional and certified Scrum Master. She is passionate about learning new technologies and challenging and improving existing processes to enhance their efficiency
