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.

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

Autorentext
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).

Inhalt
Healthcare Knowledge Management: Innovations and New Understanding.- Building New Healthcare Management Paradigms: A Case for Healthcare Knowledge Management.- Clinical Knowledge Management: A Model for Primary Care.- Role of Information Professionals as Intermediaries for Knowledge Management in Evidence-Based Healthcare.- Healthcare Knowledge Management and Information Technology: A Systems Understanding.- Medical Technology Management in Hospital Certification in Mexico.- Approaches, Frameworks, and Techniques for Healthcare Knowledge Management.- Healthcare Knowledge Sharing: Purpose, Practices, and Prospects.- Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies, and Process of Knowledge Management to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery.- The Hidden Power of Social Networks and Knowledge Sharing in Healthcare.- Constructing Healthcare Knowledge.- Narratives in Healthcare.- Application Service Provider Technology in the Healthcare Environment.- Secured Electronic Patient Records Content Exploitation.- Healthcare Knowledge Management Implementations: Evidence from Practice.- Knowledge Management and the National Health Service in England.- Knowledge Management and the National Health Service in Scotland.- Knowledge Management for Primary Healthcare Services.- We Haven't Got a Plan, so What Can Go Wrong? Where is the NHS Coming from?.- Healthcare Knowledge Management: Knowledge Management in the Perinatal Care Environment.