Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances and Successes (Health Informatics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387335404 ISBN 13: 9780387335407

Publisher: Springer, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

Successful healthcare problem solving often depends on immediate access to information. Unable to consult a library while in a clinical setting, healthcare practitioners and managers must learn to effectively manage knowledge and think on their toes. Knowledge Management (KM) is an ideal system to tap the tacit knowledge individuals hold and distribute this collective wisdom throughout a healthcare institution.

Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances, and Successes assembles a group of international contributors to explain KM and offer contemporary, clinically relevant lessons in organizational implementation. This book illustrates the effectiveness of KM by investigating real life healthcare-based systems that highlight the diversity of KM applications in the healthcare sector. Healthcare Knowledge Management is a uniquely integrative text―both a tutorial on concepts, theories, and research as well as a practical guide to managing and developing KM in the healthcare setting.

Topics covered in this book include:

-Clinical Knowledge Management – a model for primary care

-The hidden power of social networks and knowledge sharing in health care

-Constructing healthcare knowledge

-Electronic patient records

-Case studies from around the world

Rajeev K. Bali, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Coventry University, UK; Leader, Knowledge Management for Healthcare Research subgroup of the Biomedical Computing Research Group (BIOCORE).

Ashish N. Dwivedi, PhD, Lecturer, University of Hull, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387335404
• ISBN 13: 9780387335407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Bali Rajeev, Dwivedi Ashish