Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations

by Wickramasinghe, Nilmini

• ISBN13: 9781591404606
• ISBN10: 1591404606
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Igi Global

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Elie Geisler
Preface	ix
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Jatinder N. D. Gupta
Sushil K. Sharma
Section I: Knowledge Management in the Healthcare Industry
Knowledge Management in Healthcare	1	(13)
Sushil K. Sharma
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Jatinder N.D. Gupta
Knowledge Management in Hospitals	14	(15)
Kevin C. Desouza
How to Handle Knowledge Management in Healthcare: A Description of a Model to Deal with the Current and Ideal Situation	29	(15)
A. E. Wahle
W.A. Groothuis
How to Start or Improve a KM System in a Hospital or Healthcare Organization	44	(6)
A. H. Rubenstein
E. Geisler
Section II: Approaches, Frameworks and Tools to Create Knowledge-Based Health are Organizations
Moving Toward an e-Hospital	50	(15)
Vidyaranya B. Gargeya
Deborah I. Sorrell
Applying Automatic Data Collection Tools for Real-Time Patient Management	65	(13)
Richard J. Puerzer
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Healthcare Organizations: A Decision-Tree Approach	78	(13)
Murat Caner Testik
George C. Runger
Bradford Kirkman-Liff
Edward A. Smith
Engineering Dependable Health Information Systems	91	(19)
Khin Than Win
Peter Croll
e-Health with Knowledge Management: The Areas of Tomorrow	110	(15)
Sushil K. Sharma
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach in the Practice of Medicine	125	(11)
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Sushil K. Sharma
Harsha P. Reddy
Moving to an Online Framework for Knowledge-Driven Healthcare	136	(14)
Bruce Shadbolt
Rui Wang
Paul S. Craft
Using the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Criteria to Enable KM and Create a Systemic Organizational Perspective	150	(14)
Susan West Engelkemeyer
Sharon Muret-Wagstaff
Realizing Knowledge Assets in the Medical Sciences with Data Mining: AnOverview	164	(15)
Adam Fadlalla
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Section III: Key Issues and Concerns of Various Knowledge Management Implementations: Evidence from Practice
Organizational Control Mode, Cognitive Activity & Performance Reliability: The Case of a National Hospital in Japan	179	(14)
M. Saito
T. Inoue
H. Seki
Tele-Medicine: Building Knowledge-Based Tele-Health Capability in New Zealand	193	(14)
Nabeel A. Y. Al-Qirim
Aligning Multiple Knowledge Perspectives in a Health Services System: A Case Study	207	(15)
Tanya Castleman
Paul Swatman
Danielle Fowler
Knowing How Intranets Enable Knowledge Work: An Exploratory Study in Public Health	222	(13)
Martin Hughes
William Golden
Knowledge Management in Indian Companies: Benchmarking the Pharmaceutical Industry	235	(19)
John Gammack
Pranay Desai
Kuldeep Sandhu
Heidi Winklhofer
``Do No Harm'': Can Healthcare Live Up to It?	254	(16)
Nat Natarajan
Amanda H. Hoffmeister
Section IV: Managing Knowledge as an Asset in Healthcare Organizations
Temporary Communication Infrastructures for Dynamic KM in the Complex and Innovative Environment of Palliative Care	270	(16)
Graydon Davison
Managing Healthcare Organizations through the Knowledge Productivity Measurement	286	(18)
Jae-Hyeon Ahn
Suk-Gwon Chang
Knowledge Strategic Management in the Hospital Industry	304	(17)
Ana Karina Marimon da Cunha
Ely Laureano Paiva
Secure Knowledge Management for Healthcare Organizations	321	(16)
Darren Mundy
David W. Chadwick
Managing Knowledge to Improve Healthcare Quality in Banner Health	337	(16)
Twila Burdick
John Hensing
Bradford Kirkman-Liff
Pamela Nenaber
Howard Silverman
Maire Simington
About the Authors	353	(12)
Index	365