Agile System in Health Care: Literature Review

The goal of this exploratory paper is to focus on the present status of implementation of the agile system in health care. In this article, analysis emphasizes the definition of agile in health care, enablers cum characteristic, implementation procedure, and barriers. An inclusive research of the literature pertaining to the implementation of this system in health care was used to produce a technique to implement it. A system that is flexible in nature and enables to respond quickly to customer demand and market fluctuations while still optimizing costs and quality by adopting upgraded tools, processes, and trainings is termed as an agile system. The agile system in health care basically offers an efficient framework to organize and govern process improvement. It can be only accomplished if a systems approach is enforced together with a proper orientation. The common implementation steps suggest conduct agile training, start pilot projects, and executing improvements using interdisciplinary teams. Lack of instructors and advisors is one of the barriers and they can furnish support by sharing their knowledge and experience and illustrating with help of an example from real-life applications of agile in health care.