Healthcare Knowledge Management Primer
About this ebook
The Healthcare Knowledge Management Primer explores and explains essential KM principles in healthcare settings in an introductory and easy to understand fashion. This concise book is ideal for both students and professionals who need to learn more about key aspects of the KM field as it pertains to effecting superior healthcare delivery. It provides readers with an understanding of approaches to KM by examining the purpose and nature of its key components and demystifies the KM field by explaining in an accessible manner the key concepts of KM tools, strategies and techniques, and their benefits to contemporary healthcare organizations.
About the author
Nilmini Wickramasinghe is Associate Professor at the Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology
Rajeev K. Bali is a Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management at Coventry University. He heads the Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KARMAH) research subgroup (part of the Biomedical Computing and Engineering Technologies (BIOCORE) Applied Research Group) based in the Health Design and Technology Institute (HDTI).
Brian Lehaney is Professor of Systems Management in Coventry University’s Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Jonathan L. Schaffer is Managing Director of the Information Technology Division of the e-Cleveland Clinic as well as an active surgical member of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, U.S.
M. Chris Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI), Director of the Center for Community HEALTH (CCH) and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, U.S.
