Agile development as a change management approach in Healthcare Innovation Projects

Jan Balje; Anke de Poorte; Hugo Velthuijsen

Agile development as a change management approach in Healthcare Innovation Projects

Jan Balje, Anke de Poorte, Hugo Velthuijsen

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Abstract

Although many pilots with new eHealth products have been developed, only very few of these products reach widespread adoption within healthcare organisations. The literature mentions a wide range of bottlenecks for the acceptance of new technology in the healthcare industry, among which insufficient attention for change management and acceptance by intended users. In this paper, we argue that agile software development, with its practices for user involvement and product visibility, can be used as a change management approach in healthcare innovation projects. We compare agile methods with the change approach of Kotter (1995). As an illustration of our theoretical findings, we describe a development project of an innovative eHealth application to support the care for persons with intellectual disability.

Original language	English
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - Oct 2015
Event	3rd Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) Conference 2015 - Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands Duration: 21 Oct 2015 → 23 Oct 2015 Conference number: 3rd http://www.useconference.com/

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Conference	3rd Understanding Small Enterprises (USE) Conference 2015
Abbreviated title	USE2015
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Groningen
Period	21/10/15 → 23/10/15
Internet address	http://www.useconference.com/

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health care
technology
software development
change processes
management

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Velthuijsen, H. & Baljé, J.
1/01/10 → 31/12/11
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