Professor Sir Muir Gray will lead 3V colleagues 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.
3V regularly scans at least 30 prominent journals on medicine, healthcare and value. From these we select one seminal paper each week to draw out the important points for a paper and podcast on value.
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, [...]
BookPod – Choices, Values, and Frames by Kahneman & Tversky
Book: Choices, Values, and Frames Author: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky Teaser: How we make decisions in healthcare is heavily influenced by our emotions, whether we like it or not. This important book outlines the impact that emotions [...]
BookPod – Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte
Book: Visual Display of Quantitative Information Author: Edward Tufte Teaser: Anybody who wants to display graphical information should read this book. Anybody who wants to understand how beautiful data can look should read this book. Read this book [...]
BookPod – The Structuring of Organizations by Henry Mintzberg
Book: The Structuring of Organizations Author: Henry Mintzberg Teaser: This book is one of the great blockbusters of management. It is a synthesis of the empirical literature currently available on organisational structuring. Importantly, Mintzberg discusses organisations that are staffed by highly [...]
BookPod – Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
Book: Risk Savvy: How To Make Good Decisions Author: Gerd Gigerenzer Teaser: Repeated research studies demonstrate that doctors and patients alike overestimate the likelihood of benefits and underestimate the likelihood of harms. That is because we do not understand risk. Gerd Gigerenzer, [...]
BookPod – The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells
Book: The Rise of the Network Society - The Information Age Author: Manuel Castells Teaser: This book, the first in Castells′ ground–breaking trilogy, is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. [...]
BookPod – Organisational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein
Book: Organisational Culture and Leadership Author: Edgar Schein Teaser: The great management expert Peter Drucker said “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Repeated studies have shown the importance of culture on healthcare importance. Yet, almost all healthcare reform focuses on structural [...]
BookPod – Complex Organizations by Charles Perrow
Book: Complex Organizations Author: Charles Perrow Teaser: We all work in organisations. But do we understand why and how organisations work? This book is a classic text in sociology. It provides a succinct overview of the principal schools of [...]