Overview
- Relative newness of Healthcare Knowledge Management means the academic schools and practitioners are reliant on journal papers and isolated book chapters; this book would be among the first to deal exclusively with this topic
- Gets at the theory of Knowledge Management through real-life situations, and is therefore ideal for the practicing healthcare professional
- This book's approach is also makes it appealing as a text book, from which students of all levels are able to understand Knowledge Management from its very basics
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Healthcare Knowledge Management: Innovations and New Understanding
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Approaches, Frameworks, and Techniques for Healthcare Knowledge Management
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Healthcare Knowledge Management Implementations: Evidence from Practice
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rajeev K. Bali is a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University, UK. He is the leader of the Knowledge Management for Healthcare subgroup, which works under the Biomedical Computing Research Group (BIOCORE).
Ashish N. Dwivedi is a Lecturer at the Business School, University of Hull. He is also associated with the management of the high-tech Management Learning Laboratory and is the programme leader for a newly created Masters in Knowledge Management (MSc in KM).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healthcare Knowledge Management
Book Subtitle: Issues, Advances and Successes
Editors: Rajeev K. Bali, Ashish N. Dwivedi
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49009-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-33540-7Published: 29 September 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2212-0Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-49009-0Published: 30 May 2010
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 282
Topics: Health Informatics