Lessons from the business sector for successful knowledge management in health care: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It has become essential to develop a way to manage the information coming in to and going out of a health care organization. The purpose of this paper was to summarize previous studies from the business literature that explored specific knowledge management tools, with the aim of extracting lessons that could be applied in the health domain.

Methods

We searched seven databases using keywords such as "knowledge management", "organizational knowledge", and "business performance". We included

SUBMITTER: Kothari A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3157420 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature