Management roles in innovative technology implementation: a healthcare perspective

"In a healthcare empirical context, we show that lack of top management vision and coordination leads to local units that are excessively autonomous in some respects, hindering knowledge and information transfer within the organisation."

Management roles in innovative technology implementation: a healthcare perspective
Centre for Strategic Innovation Research Electronic Working Paper Series: Paper no. 2012/2
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden
2012

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Personalised medicine in European hospitals

"Personalised medicine aims to provide the timely, precise, personalised diagnosis and treatment of patients, with a particular emphasis on wellness and disease prevention."

Personalised medicine in European hospitals
Price Waterhouse Cooper, European Hospital and Healthcare Federation (HOPE)
February 2012

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Effective pathways for long term conditions

"There is a need to shift from an organisational model of delivery to a pathway approach which focuses on the needs of individual patients."

Effective pathways for long term conditions
NHS Improvement
April 2012

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Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems

"We reviewed the policy context for, and approaches to, chronic disease management in 13 European countries."

DISMEVAL: Developing and validating disease management evaluation methods for European healthcare systems: final report
E Nolte, S Hinrichs
RAND Europe
April 2012

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Weekend admission to hospital has a higher risk of death in the elective setting than in the emergency setting

"Weekend admission appears to be an independent risk factor for dying in hospital and this risk is more pronounced in the elective setting."

Weekend admission to hospital has a higher risk of death in the elective setting than in the emergency setting: A retrospective database study of national health service hospitals in England
MA Mohammed, KS Sidhu, G Rudge, AJ Stevens
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:87

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Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology

"This booklet illustrates examples of innovative service delivery, prevention of unnecessary interventions, and initiatives that simultaneously improve service efficiency and cost effectiveness alongside quality of patient care."

Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology: positive practice in service redesign
Neurological Commissioning Support Limited
March 2012

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Productivity of the English National Health Service 2003-4 to 2009-10

"Over the full period considered we find that increases in inputs have been matched closely by increases in output."

Productivity of the English National Health Service 2003-4 to 2009-10: CHE Research Paper 76
C Bojke, A Castelli, R Goudie, A Street, P Ward
Centre for Health Economics
University of York
March 2012

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