Creating knowledge-based healthcare organizations
Title:
Creating knowledge-based healthcare organizations
Author:
Wickramasinghe, Nilmini.
ISBN:
9781591404613
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (x, 367 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
1. Knowledge management in healthcare / Sushil Sharma, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Jatinder Gupta -- 2. Knowledge management in hospitals / Kevin Desouza -- 3. How to handle knowledge management in healthcare / A. Wahle, W. Groothuis -- 4. How to start or improve a KM system in a hospital or healthcare organization / A. Rubenstein, E. Geisler -- 5. Moving toward an e-hospital / Vidyaranya Gargeya, Deborah Sorrell -- 6. Applying automatic data collection tools for real-time patient management / Richard Puerzer -- 7. Data mining and knowledge discovery in healthcare organizations / Murat Testik, George Runger, Bradford Kirkman-Liff, Edward Smith -- 8. Engineering dependable health information systems / Khin Win, Peter Croll -- 9. e-Health with knowledge management / Sushil Sharma, Nilmini Wickramasinghe -- 10. Evidence-based medicine / Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Sushil Sharma, Harsha Reddy -- 11. Moving to an online framework for knowledge-driven healthcare / Bruce Shadbolt, Rui Wang, Paul Craft -- 12. Using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria to enable KM and create a systemic organizational perspective / Susan Engelkemeyer, Sharon Muret-Wagstaff -- 13. Realizing knowledge assets in the medical sciences with data mining / Adam Fadlalla, Nilmini Wickramasinghe -- 14. Organizational control mode, cognitive activity & performance reliability / M. Saito, H. Seki -- 15. Tele-medicine / Nabeel Al-Qirim --
16. Aligning multiple knowledge perspectives in a health services system / Tanya Castleman, Paul Swatman, Danielle Fowler -- 17. Knowing how intranets enable knowledge work / Martin Hughes, William Golden -- 18. Knowledge management in Indian companies / John Gammack, Pranay Desai, Kuldeep Sandhu, Heidi Winklhofer -- 19. "Do no harm" / Nat Natarajan, Amanda Hoffmeister -- 20. Temporary communication infrastructures for dynamic KM in the complex and innovative environment of palliative care / Graydon Davison -- 21. Managing healthcare organizations through the knowledge productivity measurement / Jae-Hyeon Ahn, Suk-Gwon Chang -- 22. Knowledge strategic management in the hospital industry / Ana Marimon da Cunha, Ely Paiva -- 23. Secure knowledge management for healthcare organizations / Darren Mundy, David Chadwick -- 24. Managing knowledge to improve healthcare quality in banner health / Twila Burdick, John Hensing, Bradford Kirkman-Liff, Pamela Nenaber, Howard Silverman, Maire Simington.
Abstract:
This book brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations. Furthermore, it has a global flavor, as we discuss knowledge management approaches in healthcare organizations throughout the world. For the first time, many of the concepts, tools, and techniques relevant to knowledge management in healthcare are available, offereing the reader an understanding of all the components required to utilize knowledge.
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