Here's how you can adapt and stay agile in your healthcare career.

Future-Proofing Your Skills: By embracing change and continuously learning new skills, you can stay relevant and in demand in the job market. This could involve taking courses on new technologies, attending conferences to stay updated on industry trends, or pursuing certifications in emerging healthcare fields. Problem-Solving with Agility: The ability to adapt allows you to approach challenges and opportunities with a flexible mindset. You can analyze new situations, identify the best course of action, and implement solutions effectively, even in unfamiliar territory.

Staying agile is like keeping a first-aid kit up-to-date - it ensures you're prepared for unexpected challenges and can respond with innovative solutions to drive success! 🏥

Healthcare will transcend from just basic clinical healthcare where the focus is traditionally on non communicable disease, to preventive healthcare that is more integrative with social care. Beyond the realm of healthcare, we are also seeing significant leaps into collaborative fields such as emerging technologies, holistic well-being, and ESG, which compels the need for the healthcare professional to keep in mind when embracing continuous learning. Keeping an open mind with a sense of curiosity to consider partnership models of care will serve well to identify skillsets to be trained in, not limited to just traditional healthcare related knowledge.

This is probably the most difficult part of the journey in healthcare? Staying relevant in the ever changing landscape and also the pace how everything is changing. This is not simply staying relevant with the advancements in medicine but also with patient’s behavior, social landscape and infrastructure and of course technology. It is the combination of these factors that would eventually determine how healthcare is delivered and hence, people that would be involved in improving healthcare would need to stay relevant

Agility in healthcare is essential for one to thrive sustainably. As the demographics change on at a global level with populations aging rapidly, healthcare models evolve together with these macroscopic changes. This is, of course, also impacted by significant disruptors recently such as social media and AI. Healthcare practitioners are thus nudged towards adopting new or evolved care models and agility and adaptability will be key to remain vested and relevant.

Keep up to date with technology advancements and how they apply in real-life scenarios. LinkedIn is a good tool for this and following certain professionals who specialise in digital health. Being informed and aware will not only support you on a day to day basis, but will also enhance the care you can provide to your patients.

Healthcare is about being in the business of helping people. However, the advent of technology is hugely disruptive to how healthcare is being delivered to the recipients. Healthcare professionals can certainly leverage on their clinical expertise to influence how EHRs are conceptualised and developed, to mitigate the risk of the healthcare being technology driven, rather than outcome driven. We have recently seen some examples of organisations 'over-administrating' healthcare professionals, leading to burnouts and overall poorer patient outcomes, and hence technological proficiency in the healthcare industry is key to recalibrating the balance between tech and care.