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Knowledge Management in Healthcare

Knowledge Management in Healthcare

Sushil K. Sharma, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Jatinder N.D. Gupta
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 12
ISBN13: 9781605660509|ISBN10: 1605660507|EISBN13: 9781605660516
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch016
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Sharma, Sushil K., et al. "Knowledge Management in Healthcare." Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, IGI Global, 2009, pp. 186-197. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch016

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Sharma, S. K., Wickramasinghe, N., & Gupta, J. N. (2009). Knowledge Management in Healthcare. In J. Tan (Ed.), Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 186-197). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch016

Chicago

Sharma, Sushil K., Nilmini Wickramasinghe, and Jatinder N.D. Gupta. "Knowledge Management in Healthcare." In Medical Informatics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Joseph Tan, 186-197. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-050-9.ch016

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Abstract

Healthcare organizations are facing many challenges in the 21s t Century due to changes taking place in global healthcare systems. Spiraling costs, financial constraints, increased emphasis on accountability and transparency, changes in education, growing complexities of biomedical research, new partnerships in healthcare and great advances in IT suggest that a predominant paradigm shift is occurring. This shift is necessitating a focus on interaction, collaboration and increased sharing of information and knowledge which is in turn leading healthcare organizations to embrace the techniques of Knowledge Management (KM) in order to create and sustain optimal healthcare outcomes. This chapter describes the importance of knowledge management systems for healthcare organizations and provides an overview of knowledge management technologies and tools that may be used by healthcare organizations.

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