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Why Agile is an important Initiative in Healthcare?

The pandemic's turbulent trajectory provides compelling evidence for Agile innovation in healthcare. Companies that broke out from traditional product development procedures aided in the rapid response to a serious humanitarian disaster. Companies that continue to practice their newly discovered Agile ways of working can overcome entrenched barriers to innovation and respond quickly to human needs in the event of future crises. Senior healthcare executives see inadequate cross-functional collaboration, ineffective customer collaboration, and the failure to allocate enough resources to scale projects as the main drivers of innovation failures. Agile addresses these issues when used correctly.

This is a critical period for innovation because healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to raise standards and lower expenses. Amazon and other digital insurgents are upending the established payers, providers, pharma, and MedTech industries in their most lucrative, cutthroat markets. Healthcare companies must launch high-quality goods even faster to compete in this unstable and quickly changing industry. Agile equips the company to respond and adapt rapidly to changing customer needs and market situations by promoting speedy decision-making on new product concepts, fostering communication across the appropriate departments, and elevating client feedback.

Innovation Is Where Agile Begins

Agile management achieves ground-breaking outcomes in sectors where innovation and quick time to market are key drivers of growth. Agile teams are enabling even previously hesitant healthcare and life sciences CEOs to unleash a powerful wave of innovation.

Agile innovation refers to a collection of approaches, the most popular of which is Scrum, that stands for a quicker, more productive, and collaborative manner of working. Agile teams are compact, self-managing, cross-functional groups to quickly solve challenging issues. They collaborate closely with customers to create several prototypes that will help accelerate innovation in goods, services, and procedures. Their main objective is to satisfy the client.

According to (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348858551) , Agile Innovation to transform healthcare Innovating in complex adaptive systems is an everyday process, not a light bulb event; an example of agile innovation in healthcare includes: Agile methodologies have been applied to develop user-centered, participatory software for the healthcare industry. The effort to enhance electronic health records for primary and behavioral healthcare practitioners is one example that technology researchers are driving at Oregon Health & Science University. They created requirements by using short ethnography to discover user wants. Then, using both already-developed and newly-developed software tools, needs were addressed. The team evaluated whether actual consumers (clinicians) considered the program to be useable and acceptable through iterative prototype testing with end users, which led to software improvements and subsequently validated products packaged for clinical application.

Reference

  1. https://www.bain.com/insights/the-pandemic-forced-agile-innovation-in-healthcare/

  2. Holden, Richard & Boustani, Malaz & Azar, Jose. (2021). Agile Innovation to transform healthcare: Innovating in complex adaptive systems is an everyday process, not a light bulb event. BMJ Innovations. 7. bmjinnov-2020. 10.1136/bmjinnov-2020-000574. 

  3. https://www.infinitiresearch.com/thoughts/agile-innovation-healthcare/

  4. https://dhge.org/about-us/blog/agile-healthcare-innovation-patient-outcomes

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