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Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations
by Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Jatinder N. D. Gupta, Sushil K. Sharma - Cleveland State University, USA; University of Alabama, USA; Ball state University, USA

Hardcover: 368 pages
ISBN 1591404592
Idea Group Publishing
August 2004
Price $84.95

 

Creating Knowledge-Based Healthcare Organizations explores how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare.

This book includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations. Concepts, tools, and techniques relevant to knowledge management in healthcare are reviewed, offering the reader an understanding of all the components required to utilize knowledge in a healthcare setting.

The purpose of Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations is to bring together some high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. For the first time, it is possible to have so many of the concepts, tools, and techniques relevant to knowledge management in healthcare in this one volume.

Creating Knowledge Based Healthcare Organizations brings together high quality concepts closely related to how knowledge management can be utilized in healthcare. It includes the methodologies, systems, and approaches needed to create and manage knowledge in various types of healthcare organizations.

Nilmini Wickramasinghe completed five degrees from The University of Melbourne, Australia, and accepted a full scholarship to undertake PhD studies with Michael Ginzberg at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio in the United States of America. During this time she was involved with many research projects focusing on health care issues. Currently, Dr. Wickramasinghe is an assistant professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the James J. Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University, Ohio USA. Here she teaches Information Systems at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of knowledge management as well as e-commerce and m-commerce, IT for competitive advantage organizational impacts of technology and healthcare issues. In addition, Dr. Wickramasinghe teaches and presents regularly in many universities in Europe and Australia. Dr Wickramasinghe is honored to be able to represent the United States of America for the Health Care Technology Management (HCTM) Association. 

Jatinder N. D. Gupta is currently Eminent Scholar of Management, Professor of Management Information Systems, and Chairperson of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the College of Administrative Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. Most recently, he was Professor of Management, Information and Communication Sciences, and Industry and Technology at the Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (with specialization in Production Management and Information Systems) from Texas Tech University. Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Researcher awards from Ball State University, he has published numerous papers in such journals as Journal of Management Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Annals of Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations Research. His current research interests include information and decision technologies, scheduling, planning and control, organizational learning and effectiveness, systems education, and knowledge management. 

Sushil K. Sharma currently Assistant Professor of Management for the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at Ball State University, Indiana. He received his PhD in Information Systems from Pune University, India and has taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow for eleven years before joining Ball State University. Dr. Sharma held the position of Visiting Research Associate Professor at the Department of Management Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. His primary teaching interests are e-commerce, computer communication networks, database mangement systems, management information systems and information systems analysis and design. He has a wide range of consulting experience and has served as a consultant to several government and private organizations including World Bank funding projects. His current research interests include database management systems, networking environments, electronic commerce, knowledge management and corporate information systems. He is the co-author of several book chapters dealing with several of these topics.

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