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Healthcare Knowledge Management
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As medical science advances and the applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to healthcare operations diffuse more and more data and information begin to permeate healthcare databases and repositories. However, given the voluminous nature of these disparate data assets, it is no longer possible for healthcare providers to process these data without the aid of sophis- ticated tools and technologies. The goal of knowledge management is to provide the decision maker with appropriate tools, technologies, strategies and processes to turn data and information into valuable knowledge assets. The following discusses the benefits of incorporating these tools and techniques to the healthcare arena in order to make healthcare delivery more effective and efficient, and thereby maxi- mise the full potential of all healthcare knowledge assets. To ensure a successful knowledge management initiative in a healthcare setting the chapter proffers the knowledge management infrastructure (KMI) framework and intelligence con- tinuum (IC) model. The benefits these techniques lie not only the ability of making explicit the elements of these knowledge assets, and in so doing enable their full potential to be realized, but also to provides a systematic and robust approach to structuring the conceptualization of knowledge assets across a range of healthcare environments as the case study data presented demonstrates.
Nilmini Wickramasinghe - Personal Name
978-1-4419-5643-9
NONE
Social Science
English
2010
1-19
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