Friday, 19 September 2008

Innovation

Will it work here? A decisionmaker’s guide to adopting innovations
This guide has been prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The aim of the guide is to promote evidence-based decision-making and help decision-makers determine whether an innovation would work in their health care organization. Guided by a framework that regards adoption as a process, rather than an event, the tool is based on a modified version of the core concepts in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations. Click here to read the guide.

Working together for better primary health care: overcoming barriers to workforce change and innovation
This report has been prepared for the New Zealand Minister of Health from the Workforce Taskforce. The Taskforce identified the principal barriers to primary health care workforce effectiveness in the following areas:
  • The funding model
  • Organisational structures
  • Professional leadership
  • Training
  • Quality improvement
Click here to read the report.

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