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 – Social Choice and Individual Values by Kenneth Arrow
Book: Social Choice and Individual Values Author: Kenneth Arrow Teaser: Making decisions, especially where there are competing priorities, is complex and sometimes impossible. Arrow describes two ways in which decisions can be made in democratic capitalist countries, markets and politics. Understanding [...]
BookPod – An Introduction to Quality Assurance in Health Care by Donabedian
Book: 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 [...]
BookPod – Setting Limits Fairly: Learning to Share Resources for Health by Daniels & Sabin
Book: Setting Limits Fairly: Learning to Share Resources for Health Author: Norman Daniels and James Sabin Teaser: The people we serve would expect resources to be used fairly and reasonably. In this book, Daniels and Sabin outline that we lack [...]
BookPod – Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government by Mark Moore
Book: Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government Author: Mark Moore Teaser: Anybody leading a public service organisation, a hospital, a clinic, a healthcare payer, should understand their role in providing public value. This great book by Mark [...]
BookPod – The Strategy of Preventative Medicine by Rose
Book: The Strategy of Preventative Medicine Author: Geoffrey Rose Teaser: The current fashion is for targeting interventions towards those at higher risk. But this is often at the expense of interventions that are targeted at a whole population. [...]
BookPod – Trying Hard is Not Good Enough by Friedman
Book: Trying hard is not good enough Author: Mark Friedman Teaser: Friedman’s great addition to management thinking was that we need to stop focussing on doing a lot of activity productively and start to focus on outcomes. More importantly, [...]
BookPod – Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Bohmer
Book: Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care Author: Richard Bohmer Teaser: Why have costs risen in healthcare? How can we improve the value of care? In Designing Care, Harvard Business School professor and doctor [...]
From shops and chains to networks: rethinking value creation for complex healthcare
This week’s blog is brought to you by: Dr Joe McManners Full reference and title from the journal: Fjeldstad, Ø. D., Johnson, J. K., Margolis, P. A., Seid, M., Höglund, P., & Batalden, P. B. (Accepted/In press). Networked health [...]
How does participating in a deliberative citizens panel on healthcare priority setting influence the views of participants?
This week’s blog is brought to you by: Professor Sir Muir Gray, Founding Director Reckers-Droog V et al (2020) et al./Health Policy 124143–151 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.11.011 The paper’s bottom line, text from the paper chosen by 3VH Conclusions Our study [...]
Health Care Hotspotting — A Randomized, Controlled Trial
This week’s blog is brought to you by: Professor Sir Muir Gray, Founding Director Full reference and title from the journal: Health Care Hotspotting — A Randomized, Controlled Trial, Finkelstein, A. et al (2020), N Engl J Med [...]