The healthcare sector's leveraging of rapid development methods remains rather limited. Hospitals in particular are lagging behind in this area, while agile working and low-code can offer a solution to many of the challenges in healthcare.
Healthcare is in an era of scarcity, both in terms of personnel and resources. A dwindling workforce is growing frustrated with working with monolithic software systems. Outdated systems and vendor lock-ins dominate the healthcare software landscape. Applications are difficult to customize with new functionalities for a better user experience. For example, health professionals currently often have to manually retype information from one application into another. Nonetheless, there are some early adopters in the sector.