AHEAD is a bi-weekly email, designed for current and future healthcare decision-makers. AHEAD alerts you to new web resources, reports, articles and guidelines. Selected online resources cover topics like leadership, quality improvement, administration and patient safety.

The following is a sample of an AHEAD alert.

If you would like to subscribe, go to http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/umhsl-aheadhttp://bit.ly/SDvFZ2.

AHEAD Alert for Healthcare Decision-Makers A bi-weekly alert for healthcare decision-makers from the University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries

UMHSL Resource:

Trastek, VF, Hamilton, NW, Niles EE. Leadership models in health care – a case for servant leadershiphttp://bit.ly/1otw9eh. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2014; Jan 30. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.10.012

Our current health care system is broken and unsustainable. Patients desire the highest quality care, and it needs to cost less. To regain public trust, the health care system must change and adapt to the current needs of patients. The diverse group of stakeholders in the health care system creates challenges for improving the value of care. Health care providers are in the best position to determine effective ways of improving the value of care. To create change, health care providers must learn how to effectively lead patients, those within health care organizations, and other stakeholders. This article presents servant leadership as the best model for health care organizations because it focuses on the strength of the team, developing trust and serving the needs of patients. As servant leaders, health care providers may be best equipped to make changes in the organization and in the provider-patient relationship to improve the value of care for patients.

Note: To access this article, click on the article title link and choose “Full Text Available”. You will be asked to log in with your University of Manitoba staff, student, or Library ID and pin.Contact your nearest University of Manitoba Library if you require assistance.

Web Resource:

Institute of Health Economics. IHE in your pocket 2014. A handbook of health economics statisticshttp://bit.ly/Rupl50. January 2014. Accessed February 5, 2014.

IHE In Your Pocket 2014 – a handbook of Canadian health economic statistics includes the most currently available data, presented in separate sections on the economic burden of illness, health care resources, health behaviours, health status and demographics and health system performance.

For more resources on health management and administration, go to:http://libguides.lib.umanitoba.ca/healthadminhttp://bit.ly/1iuRVsU

If you have been forwarded this message and you wish to subscribe/unsubscribe to theAHEAD Alert, go to: http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/umhsl-aheadhttp://bit.ly/SDvFZ2