Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
Knowledge Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

Author: Grtter, Rolf

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1591400066

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Because the field of healthcare reflects forms of both explicit and tacit knowledge such as evidence-based knowledge, clinical guidelines and the physician's experience, knowledge media have significant potential in this area. Knowledge Media and Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges is an innovative new book that strives to show the positive impact that Knowledge Media and communication technology can have on human communication within the field of healthcare.

Health Professions Education
Health Professions Education

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 030913319X

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The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

Healthcare Knowledge Management
Healthcare Knowledge Management

Author: Rajeev Bali

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-05-30

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0387490094

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This unique text is a practical guide to managing and developing Healthcare Knowledge Management (KM) that is underpinned by theory and research. It provides 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, this text offers contemporary and clinically-relevant lessons for future organizational implementations.

Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations
Creating Knowledge-based Healthcare Organizations

Author: Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9781591404590

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Annotation The purpose of Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations is to bring together some high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilised in healthcare.

Handbook on Ontologies
Handbook on Ontologies

Author: Steffen Staab

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 661

ISBN-13: 3540247505

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An ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents. The concept is important for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospectives of the field of ontologies. The handbook demonstrates standards that have been created recently, it surveys methods that have been developed and it shows how to bring both into practice of ontology infrastructures and applications that are the best of their kind.

Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications
Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications

Author: Roberto Poli

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-09-02

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9048188474

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Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of ‘what there is’. Recently, however, a field called ‘ontology’ has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in common than just their name. Theory and Applications of Ontology is a two-volume anthology that aims to further an informed discussion about the relationship between ontology in philosophy and ontology in information technology. It fills an important lacuna in cutting-edge research on ontology in both fields, supplying stage-setting overview articles on history and method, presenting directions of current research in either field, and highlighting areas of productive interdisciplinary contact. Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer Applications presents ontology in ways that philosophers are not likely to find elsewhere. The volume offers an overview of current research in ontology, distinguishing basic conceptual issues, domain applications, general frameworks, and mathematical formalisms. It introduces the reader to current research on frameworks and applications in information technology in ways that are sure to invite reflection and constructive responses from ontologists in philosophy.

The Digitization of Healthcare
The Digitization of Healthcare

Author: Loick Menvielle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1349951730

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Combining conceptual, pragmatic and operational approaches, this edited collection addresses the demand for knowledge and understanding of IT in the healthcare sector. With new technology outbreaks, our vision of healthcare has been drastically changed, switching from a ‘traditional’ path to a digitalized one. Providing an overview of the role of IT in the healthcare sector, The Digitization of Healthcare illustrates the potential benefits and challenges for all those involved in delivering care to the patient. The incursion of IT has disrupted the value chain and changed business models for companies working in the health sector, and also raised ethical issues and new paradigms about delivering care. This book illustrates the rise of patient empowerment through the development of patient communities such as PatientLikeMe, and medical collaborate platforms such as DockCheck, thus providing a necessary tool to patients, caregivers and academics alike.

Beyond Knowledge Management
Beyond Knowledge Management

Author: Brian Lehaney

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781591401803

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Providing a combination of the conceptual and practical aspects of knowledge management, this book demonstrates how this management approach can be effectively used. Everyday examples are provided to encourage its practical application within organizations.

Health Information Science
Health Information Science

Author: Guangyan Huang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-03-22

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 3642378994

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2013, held in London, UK, in March 2013. The 20 full papers presented together with 3 short papers, 3 demo papers and one poster in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover all aspects of health information sciences and systems that support the health information management and health service delivery. The scope of the conference includes 1) medical/health/biomedicine information resources, such as patient medical records, devices and equipments, software and tools to capture, store, retrieve, process, analyse, and optimize the use of information in the health domain, 2) data management, data mining, and knowledge discovery, all of which play a key role in the decision making, management of public health, examination of standards, privacy and security issues, and 3) development of new architectures and applications for health information systems.