We are interested in the ways in which healthcare gets valued. We focus on the actors, instruments and practices that make valuation possible, as well as the consequences of particular valuation practices. For example, we look at the ways in which healthcare has become increasingly data-intensified. Quantification is used both in changing and regulation of healthcare practices. But also more ‘traditional’ valuation practices of evidence-based medicine, such as making clinical guidelines or deciding upon reimbursement are still important. Hence, clinical and health services research have a great influence on what we value in care. All these practices are not just technical but also social, normative and political. We are particularly interested in the intertwinement of technical, social, moral and political practices as well as in their consequences for the actors in healthcare—patients, professionals and regulators. Our strategic partnership with the Healthcare Institute of the Netherlands is part of this work.
Projects:
- Beyond Arm’s Length: A qualitative analysis of a semi-autonomous agency's accountability practices in decision-making about conflicting public values
- BigMedilytics
- Big data in health care
- COLLELO: Learning together from loneliness
- "Eggsplaning" Decision Making in Health care Governance
- Empowering young fathers
- Exploring the governance of innovative medical technology
- Involving citizens and patients in decision-making: forever in its infancy?
- Numbering Care: Evaluative Metrics in Healthcare Governance
- Participatory Quality Improvement of Complex Relationships in Long-term Care: balancing self-management support and a caring approach
- Politics of change in healthcare governance
- Proactive advance care planning
- Research Network HTA
- Severe asthma and the impact of biologicals on patients’ everyday life
- The implementation of Value-based Health Care in the Netherlands