Knowledge Management in Healthcare

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Author(s): Christo El Morr (York University, Canada)and Julien Subercaze (Université de Lyon, France)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Developments in E-Health and Telemedicine: Technological and Social Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal), Antonio J. Tavares (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)and Ricardo Simoes (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave and University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-670-4.ch023

Keywords: Health Information Systems / Medical Information Science Reference / Medical Technologies / Medicine & Healthcare

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While knowledge management (KM) is becoming an established discipline with many applications and techniques, its adoption in health care has been challenging. Though, the health care sector relies heavily on knowledge and evidence based medicine is expected to be implemented in daily health care activities; besides, delivery of care replies on cooperation of several partners that need to exchange their knowledge in order to provide quality of care. In public health decision is mainly based on data and a shift is needed towards evidence based decision making. It is obvious that health care can profit from many advantages that KM can provide. Nevertheless, several challenges are ahead, some are proper to KM and other particular to the health care field. This chapter will overview KM, its methods and techniques, and provide and insight into health care current challenges and needs, discuss applications of KM in health care and provide some future perspectives for KM in health care.

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