Professor Sir Muir Gray will lead in providing updates, acting as a catalyst to transform information on value-based healthcare into useful and usable knowledge. These updates will include essential papers for keeping abreast of and understanding value in health and healthcare.
We scan prominent journals on medicine, healthcare and value.
BookPod – Sensemaking in Organizations by Karl Weick
Book: Sensemaking in Organizations Author: Karl E. Weick Teaser: Have you ever been kept awake worrying about how value relates to efficiency or to cost effectiveness? Relax, these are just concepts each created by an academic who down [...]
BookPod – The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organisation by Senge
Book: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organisation Author: Peter Senge Teaser: Peter Senge describes how in most organisations people save their creative, open style of learning for the weekends, and at work just [...]
BookPod – Diffusion of Innovation by Rogers
Book: Diffusion of Innovations Author: Everett M. Rogers Teaser: Everett Rogers had it all worked out decades before the internet came along. The digital medium has changed some of the rules but the game is the same, and [...]
BookPod – Communities of Practice by Wenger
Book: Communities of Practice - Learning, Meaning, and Identity Author: Etienne Wenger Teaser: Wenger describes how most organisations usually work in ignorance of how other organisations, with the same mission, are getting on. If they compare performance with [...]
BookPod – The Uncertain Physician by Kurt Link
Book:The Uncertain Physician Author: Kurt Link Teaser: “I don’t know” are the most important three words in medicine. The truth is, the more one knows, the less certain one is. And this is certainly true in medicine where [...]
BookPod – Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan
Book: Images of Organization Author: Gareth Morgan Teaser: Images of Organization is a classic based on a very simple premise—that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that stretch our imagination in [...]
BookPod – The Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change
Book: The Stern Review on The Economics of Climate Change Author: Nicholas Stern Teaser: This is a 700-page report released for the Government of the United Kingdom on 30 October 2006 and is considered as one of the [...]
BookPod – Credit Crunch Health Care: How economics can save our publicly funded health services by Donaldson
Book: Credit crunch health care: How economics can save our publicly funded health services Author: Cam Donaldson Teaser: How do we avoid a culture of contentment so that we don’t make the changes we need. In this great [...]
BookPod – Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences by Helmreich & Merritt
Book: Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences Author: Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt Teaser: Culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational, and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals [...]
BookPod – Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Krause
Book: Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present Author: Elliot Krause Teaser: Have you ever wanted to better understand the role of professions like doctors and nurses? In this book, [...]