Abstract
Reading List: Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 represents a broad-based, annotated, general reading list for students of health care innovation. The books were drawn from the 5,000-book private home library of Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association. Weinstein is a lifelong book collector with special interests in the history of medical innovation and poetry. A Massachusetts General Hospital-trained pathologist and inductee into the US Distance Learning Association's Hall of Fame, he is known as a pioneer in telemedicine and the “father of telepathology” for his invention, patenting, and commercialization of telepathology, a subspecialty of telemedicine that is a billion-dollar worldwide industry today. This Reading List: Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 consists of 41 books divided into 10 sections: (1) Human Intelligence, Behavior, and Creativity; (2) Societal Revolutions; (3) Innovation; (4) Healthcare System Transformations; (5) Education; (6) Transformational Technologies—Part 1 (AI, Automation, and Robotics); (7) Transformational Technologies—Part 2 (Telemedicine and Telehealth); (8) Digital Medicine; (9) Healthcare Transformation Implementation; and (10) COVID-19 Pandemic as an Innovation Accelerator.
Highlights
The Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 reading list was created to provide students, clinical investigators, and medical and nurse practitioners with a broad overview of the intellectual landscape in which health care transformation currently takes place and is well suited to serve as a course reading list for students of innovation, health care delivery systems, public health, and medical economics
Students of health care innovation are well advised to start their journey into the health care transformation literature by giving thought to (1) the topics of human creativity and ingenuity; (2) solutions for current challenges present throughout the health education continuum in the United States; and (3) uses of innovation accelerators to promote societal changes that favor the expansion of digital medicine in the 21st century
In each of the following 10 sections of books, we have listed 2–8 books that provide information that serves as a springboard for a deep dive into the core of the health care transformation literature and its related topics
Summary
The Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 reading list was created to provide students, clinical investigators, and medical and nurse practitioners with a broad overview of the intellectual landscape in which health care transformation currently takes place and is well suited to serve as a course reading list for students of innovation, health care delivery systems, public health, and medical economics. Dr Weinstein’s Select Healthcare Transformation Library 2.0 is divided into 10 sections: (1) Human Intelligence, Behavior, and Creativity; (2) Societal Revolutions; (3) Innovation; (4) Healthcare System Transformations; (5) Education; (6) Transformational Technologies—Part 1 (AI, Automation, and Robotics); (7) Transformational Technologies—Part 2 (Telemedicine and Telehealth); (8) Digital Medicine; (9) Healthcare Transformation Implementation; and (10) COVID-19 Pandemic as an Innovation Accelerator. For an exploration of the creation process, the book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, ‘‘Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention,’’ is perhaps somewhat dated (as some books often are in any highquality library), but reading it is a reminder that earlier scholarship often matters, especially when we think about creativity and the execution of transformative human activities. Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman’s popular book, ‘‘The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World,’’ ponders aspects of human creativity and genius from a historical perspective
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