Healthcare practitioners and managers increasingly find
themselves in clinical situations where they have to think fast and
process myriad diagnostic test results, medications and past
treatment responses in order to make decisions. Effective problem
solving in the clinical environment or classroom simulated lab
depends on a healthcare professional's immediate access to fresh
information. Unable to consult a library for information, the
healthcare practitioner must learn to effectively manage knowledge
while thinking on their toes.
Knowledge Management (KM) holds the key to this dilemma in the
healthcare environment. KM places value on the tacit knowledge that
individuals hold within an institution and often makes use of IT to
free up the collective wisdom of individuals within an
organization. Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and
Successes will explore the nature of KM within contemporary
healthcare institutions and associated organizations. It will
provide readers with an understanding of approaches to the critical
nature and use of knowledge by investigating healthcare-based KM
systems. Designed to demystify the KM process and demonstrate its
applicability in healthcare, this text offers contemporary and
clinically-relevant lessons for future organizational
implementations.
The editors of this book have assembled a group of international
contributors that reflects the diversity of KM applications in the
healthcare sector. While many KM texts suffer from pitching
theoretical issues at too technical a level, Healthcare Knowledge
Management approaches the topic from the more versatile "twin"
perspectives of both academia and commerce. This unique text is
integrative in nature a practical guide to managing and developing
KM that is underpinned by theory and research.
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