GlossaryPod – Culture
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06, 2021
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02, 2021
BookPod – Sensemaking in Organizations by Karl Weick
ruth brice2021-02-01T10:13:24+00:00Book: 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 played, or ignored and did not even reference, the other two concepts in the competitive world of academia. Weick makes it clear that you just have to relax and make sense of the perspectives of these different experts and authorities Tag: Culture
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01, 2021
BookPod – Communities of Practice by Wenger
ruth brice2021-01-11T09:46:33+00:00Book: 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 others it is usually to compete and win, or at least avoid losing. In a community of practice they share to learn. Tag: Culture
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12, 2020
BookPod – The Uncertain Physician by Kurt Link
ruth brice2020-12-14T08:49:53+00:00Book: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 combining an individual’s personal goals and specific attributes to the research evidence means that the Uncertain Physician is one of the most experienced. In this great book, Kurt Link explores the ideas around managing and dealing with uncertainty in healthcare. Tag: Culture
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12, 2020
BookPod – Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan
ruth brice2020-12-07T09:35:17+00:00Book: 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 a way that can create powerful insights. Morgan provides resources for exploring the complexity of modern organizations. Tag: Culture
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11, 2020
BookPod – Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine: National, Organizational and Professional Influences by Helmreich & Merritt
ruth brice2020-11-16T09:22:37+00:00Book: 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 function. In this book the authors explore the influences of culture in two professions, aviation and medicine. Their focus is on commercial airline pilots and operating room teams. Within these two environments they show the effect of professional, national and organizational cultures of individual attitudes and values and team interaction. Tag: Culture
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11, 2020
BookPod – Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Krause
ruth brice2020-11-09T09:45:14+00:00Book: 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, Elliot Krause considers the autonomy and leverage of modern professional groups---medicine, law, university teaching, and engineering. Krause considers the implications for professionals and those they serve. Tag: Culture
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07, 2020
BookPod – An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care by Donabedian
ruth brice2020-07-20T10:01:41+00:00Book: An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care Author: Avedis Donabedian Teaser: This book really is obligatory reading for anyone who influences the use of resources in healthcare and is interested in quality. Avedis Donabedian's name is synonymous with quality of health care. He unravelled the mystery behind the concept by defining it in clear operational terms and provided detailed blueprints for both its measurement (known as quality assessment) and its improvement (known as quality assurance). Many before him claimed that quality couldn't be defined in concrete objective terms. He demonstrated that quality is an attribute of a system which he called structure, a set of organised activities which he called process, and an outcome which results from [...]
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11, 2019
Buyer beware! Does the seller’s definition of value match your values?
ruth brice2019-11-11T14:00:58+00:00Paper of the Week: 11th November 2019 This week’s blog is brought to you by: Dr Tim Wilson Full reference and title from the journal: Bending the cost curve: time series analysis of a value transformation programme at an academic medical centre Chatfield SC, Volpicelli FM, Adler NM, et al. BMJ Qual Saf 2019;28:449–458. Emerging principles for health system value improvement programmes Moriates C, Valencia V. BMJ Qual Saf 2019;28:434–437. Authors conclusion: By the beginning of 2014 it had become apparent that our own health system, NYU Langone Health (NYULH), had substantial opportunity to improve value. From 2010 to 2013, our institutional losses on Medicare patients had more than doubled. … the American Association of Medical Colleges-Council of Teaching Hospitals (COTH) quarterly survey of [...]
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09, 2019
Paper of the Week: 24th September 2019 – Finite resources come in many forms, especially carbon
ruth brice2019-09-24T09:57:57+00:00This week’s blog is brought to you by: Managing Director, Dr Tim Wilson Full reference and title from the journal: International comparison of health care carbon footprints, Peter-Paul Pichler et al 2019 Environ. Res. Lett. 14 064004. Web Link to Paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab19e1/meta#erlab19e1s3 Authors conclusion: The health care sectors of the 36 countries studied were responsible for 1.6 Gt of CO2 emissions or 4.4% of the global total in 2014 (35.7 Gt). The health carbon footprints of China, the US, Japan, India and Germany were similar to the total national footprints of Canada, Italy, Greece, Finland, and Hungary respectively. In an international ranking of total national carbon footprints, the health carbon footprints of China and the US would rank [...]