Health Care Knowledge Management

Sir Muir Gray, Chief Knowledge Officer, NHS, UK

Effective Health Care Knowledge Management is one of the most powerful applications of Knowledge Management, because of the immediate and powerful benefits to be gained in improved Healthcare.

Sir Muir Gray, when Director of the UK National Health Service (NHS), National Knowledge and Service, and Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) said,

“Knowledge is the enemy of disease, the application of what we know will have a bigger impact than any drug or technology likely to be introduced in the next decade”.

Atul Gawande, in his best selling book ‘The Checklist Manifesto – How to get things right‘, gives so many examples of the significant benefits from a disciplined, systematic and collective approach to managing and applying the best knowledge, decisions and resultant actions, through powerful checklists, for Healthcare.

Today, we live in a far more connected world, with mobile devices, biological systems and intelligent technologies for Healthcare connected to the ‘Internet of Things’. The new possibilities to radically improve Healthcare processes and practices are very great indeed.

But the most important aspect, is to understand, first and foremost, the key ‘Principles’ or the key fundamentals of effective Knowledge Management, and effective Knowledge Asset Management, which apply to Healthcare. Then, the best strategies, methods, tools and techniques can be best applied.

Our Company Knowledge Management programmes, based on ISO Global Standards requirements, to better manage knowledge operationally, and strategically, can be viewed here.

An article “Knowledge Management in Healthcare: It’s more important than you realize”, from Health Catalyst, can be viewed here.

For more information contact info@knowledge-associates.com

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