• Describe and explain central theories and concepts of organization and organizational conditions and contexts
• Ability to apply qualitative methods to decisions on innovations in health care
• Analyze a certain case context using the theories and methods presented
• Compare and discuss and make consistence and integrated arguments of these theories possibilities and limitations for understanding the context of health care organizations
• Argue for the impact of the organizational context on health innovation
• Recommend future actions on organizing health care innovation

The Organization of Health Care Innovation will be structured by 8 lectures of 4 hours, where two hours are presented as talks and plenum discussions and one hour is a case based group excise and the last hour is wrapping up the context perspective:

1. Presenting the organizational condition of health Innovation by Anne Reff

The first day is presenting the move from descriptions of the formal health system rules to informal organizational practices and define what is a organization and how is health innovation performed in organizations and then the main 5 characteristic of organizational contexts are presented; an institutional context, a management context, a quality context, a technological context, an implementation context, and an emotional context.

1. The Professional condition of health innovation by Anne Reff

At this day we will present how professionals translate innovative idea into the local organizational practice and a case from a public hospital will demonstrate how local innovation narratives by interviews are coordinating elements for the professionals in the innovation processes.

1. The institutional condition for organizing health innovation by Susanne Waldorf

The institutional and governmental conditions effecting health care organizations will be presented, especially how different management approaches including NPM, Networks and bureaucracy constitute different conditions for stability and change in health care organizations. Furthermore qualitative data methods are discussed.

1. Organizing of and by quality/patient-safety technologies

by Morten Knudsen & Kirstine Zink Pedersen (part 1)

We present the basic principles in, methods of and practices related to health care quality- and patient-safety technologies. Potentials and limitations of the technologies are discussed in relation to innovations.

1. Organizing of and by quality/patient-safety technologies

Morten Knudsen & Kirstine Zink Pedersen (part 2)

We present the basic principles in, methods of and practices related to health care quality- and patient-safety technologies. Potentials and limitations of the technologies are discussed in relation to innovations

1. Translating the hard and the soft sides of health care organizations by Anne Roelsgaard

This day will demonstrate how the clinical side of hospitals is playing together with the emotional side of organizations and the emotional side of health care organizations is discussed and related to change and to how to make observations.

1. The condition of organizing By Henriette Langstrup

This day will demonstrate how technologies are effecting health care organizations and how organizing can be discussed and related to change.

1. A integrated framework of 5 conditions of organizing health care innovation

The last day the student will present their innovation cases of how to analysis and integrate the contextual components in understanding the organizing condition of health care innovation.  

to be announced