Here we have an important blog, published on August 15, 2019, that describes agile software development principles and their application in healthcare.
Agile is a methodology that has dramatically improved software development. It delivers better software faster using incremental steps that are continually realigned with actual customer need.
The alternative is for technology experts to create a product based on an initial concept and their understanding of what the product is supposed to do. Of course, the design is optimized for the technology and the developers’ understanding. Developers are not experts in the customer’s business so the end product can easily not be useful at all.
Healthcare is an authority-based top-down hierarchical control system. A little more agility and attention to the needs of the patient, as opposed to the ever-increasing needs of the healthcare system, would be welcome.