Accelerator London

The rise of a global pandemic has necessitated a transformation in Health and social care. New digital tools, technologies and approaches are enabling professionals to meet the rising demand for care and the public's changing expectations about how health and social care are delivered in the community.

At the present moment, ‘agile’ represents one of the hottest buzzwords in the world of business and IT, writes Svyatoslav Kotusev, Enterprise Architecture researcher, academic and author.

In February 2001, at a mountain lodge in Utah, seventeen people met to eat, drink, ski and talk about their work. Over the course of three days, they found common ground in their different approaches and wrote down 68 words to describe them. Those 68 words form the Agile Manifesto.

The drive to convert paper-based data into digital has rapidly increased from the visible benefits it brings to service providers, users and recipients, writes Naveen Madhavan PhD MBA MBCS, Senior Product Specialist (Pathology) at the NHS Wales Informatics Service.