Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management
Medical Information Science Reference (Verlag)
978-1-60566-284-8 (ISBN)
In global environments, healthcare organizations are required to be flexible and resilient in coping with uncertain and complex circumstances. ""Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management"" collects a compilation of chapters on how knowledge impacts the layout and design of the medical industry. A cutting-edge reference source within the field, this book provides comprehensive frameworks, constraints, and performances analyzed by experts within the healthcare sector.
Nilmini Wickramasinghe (PhD; MBA; GradDipMgtSt; BSc. Amus.A, piano; Amus.A, violin) researches and teaches in several areas within information systems including knowledge management, e-commerce and m-commerce, and organizational impacts of technology with particular focus on the applications of these areas to healthcare and thereby effecting superior healthcare delivery. She is well published in all these areas with more than 60 referred scholarly articles and several books. In addition, she regularly presents her work throughout North America, as well as in Europe and Australasia. Dr. Wickramasinghe is the U.S. representative of the Health Care Technology Management Association (HCTM), an international network of scholars that focuses on critical healthcare issues and the role of technology within the domain of healthcare. She is the associate director of the Center for the Management of Medical Technologies (CMMT) and holds an associate professor position at the Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals: International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations (IJNVO - www.inderscience.com/ijnvo) and International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (IJBET- www.inderscience.com/ijbet) where she was also the journals founder, both journals are published by InderScience. Eliezer (Elie) Geisler is a Distinguished Professor at the Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology and Director of the IIT Center for the Management of Medical Technology. He holds a doctorate from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Dr. Geisler is the author of nearly 100 papers in the areas of technology and innovation management, the evaluation of R&D, science and technology, and the management of healthcare and medical technology. He is the author of several books, including: Managing the Aftermath of Radical Corporate Change (1997), The Metrics of Science and Technology (2000), also translated into Chinese, Creating Value with Science and Technology (2001) and Installing and Managing Workable Knowledge Management Systems (With Rubenstein, 2003). His forthcoming books are: Knowledge and Knowledge Systems: Learning from the Wonders of the Mind, and a textbook: Knowledge Management Systems: Theory and Cases (With Wickramasinghe). He consulted for major corporations and for many U.S. federal departments, such as Defense, Agriculture, Commerce, EPA, Energy, and NASA. Dr. Geisler is the co-founder of the annual conferences on the Hospital of the Future, and the Health Care Technology and Management Association, a joint venture of several universities in 10 countries. He serves on various editorial boards of major journals. His current research interests include the nature of knowledge management in general and in complex systems, such as healthcare organizations.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.2.2011 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Advances in Healthcare Information Systems and Administration |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Hershey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 914 g |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60566-284-4 / 1605662844 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60566-284-8 / 9781605662848 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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