Claire R. McInerney,
Ph.D.
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH CARE
Knowledge Management and Health Care
The health promoting effects of primary care are acknowledged worldwide, and yet primary care clinicians are faced with daunting challenges. An aging population, co-existing conditions, more diversity in populations, burgeoning information demands, incomplete and uncertain information, and financial constraints are just a few of the factors that add complexity to providing quality health care. Knowledge Management (KM) may provide a predictive model to help create relationships and knowledge flow in primary health care to provide a more effective means of making decisions, task execution, and individual and organizational learning.
It is hoped that the research being conducted by a cross disciplinary team can create an intervention that will help primary care medical practice professionals use KM tools and processes to enhance the quality of health care management.
The team from Rutgers University, Columbia University, NH Dartmouth Family Medicine, and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School have written about their research to date in the following linked papers:
- Orzano, A. J., McInerney, C. R., McDaniel, R.R., Meese, A., Alajmi,
B., Mohr, S. M., & Tallia, A.F. (2009). Medical home—Value and
implications of knowledge management. Health Care Management Review. In
press.
- Alajmi, B.,
McInerney, C. R., Orzano, A.J., Tallia, A. F., Meese, A., Vamanu, I.
(2008). Knowledge management tools and processes
in U.S.A. primary health care: Analysis of four case
studies. Knowledge management:
Competencies and professionalism, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Knowledge Management 2008, Hawamdeh, S. et. al. (Eds.),
Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.
- Orzano, A. J.,
McInerney, C. R., Tallia, A. F., Scharf, D., & Crabtree, B. F. (2008,
Jan.-March). Family medicine practice performance and
knowledge management.
Health Care
Management Review,
33(1), 21-28.
- Orzano, A. J., McInerney, C.R., Tallia, A.F.,
Scharf, D. & Crabtree, B. F. (2008). A knowledge management model: Implications
for enhancing quality in health care.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology,
59 (3), 489-505.
- Orzano,
A.J., Tallia, A.F., McInerney, C.R., McDaniel, R.R, Crabtree, B.F. (2007,
April). Strategies for developing a
knowledge-driven culture in your practice. Family Practice Management, 14 (4),
32-34.
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