| Knowledge management in healthcare: towards 'knowledge-driven' decision-support services. | |
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PMID: 11518661 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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In this paper, we highlight the involvement of Knowledge Management in a healthcare enterprise. We argue that the 'knowledge quotient' of a healthcare enterprise can be enhanced by procuring diverse facets of knowledge from the seemingly placid healthcare data repositories, and subsequently operationalising the procured knowledge to derive a suite of Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Services that can impact strategic decision-making, planning and management of the healthcare enterprise. In this paper, we firstly present a reference Knowledge Management environment-a Healthcare Enterprise Memory-with the functionality to acquire, share and operationalise the various modalities of healthcare knowledge. Next, we present the functional and architectural specification of a Strategic Healthcare Decision-Support Services Info-structure, which effectuates a synergy between knowledge procurement (vis-à-vis Data Mining) and knowledge operationalisation (vis-à-vis Knowledge Management) techniques to generate a suite of strategic knowledge-driven decision-support services. In conclusion, we argue that the proposed Healthcare Enterprise Memory is an attempt to rethink the possible sources of leverage to improve healthcare delivery, hereby providing a valuable strategic planning and management resource to healthcare policy makers. |
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Authors:
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S S Abidi |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: International journal of medical informatics Volume: 63 ISSN: 1386-5056 ISO Abbreviation: Int J Med Inform Publication Date: 2001 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2001-08-23 Completed Date: 2001-11-01 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9711057 Medline TA: Int J Med Inform Country: Ireland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 5-18 Citation Subset: IM |
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Health Informatics Research Group, School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia. |
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Clinical Competence Decision Support Systems, Management* Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration* Expert Systems Humans Information Management / methods* Knowledge |
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