Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management

Redesigning Innovative Healthcare Operation and the Role of Knowledge Management

Murako Saito, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Masako Fuji, Eliezer Geisler

Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 322

ISBN13: 9781605662848|ISBN10: 1605662844|EISBN13: 9781605662855|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924058

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-284-8

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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.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Fundamental Aspects of Knowledge and Knowledge Management

Chapter 1

Knowledge Economy for Innovating Organizations (pages 1-16)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Today’s knowledge economy is dynamic, complex, and global. Every organization faces numerous challenges in trying to survive let alone thrive in such an environment. It is essential for innovating organizations to understand the key...

Chapter 2

Managing Knowledge for Enhancing the Participants through Organizational Learning and Leadership (pages 17-30)

Murako Saito

Managing knowledge is essential to facilitate the process of organizational learning and to foster organizational culture in which the participants are inspired and feel confident to contribute to the organization and to enhance...

Chapter 3

Permitting the True Potential of Knowledge Assets to be Utilized with KMI (pages 31-45)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

In order to support a systematic and sustainable approach to knowledge management (KM), innovating organizations must develop an appropriate knowledge management infrastructure (KMI). Such a KMI must support the people, process, and...

Chapter 4

Normal Science and Post-Normal Sciences (pages 46-55)

Elie Geisler

This chapter describes the key attributes of normal science and the recently heralded post-normal science. Drawing from the philosophy of science and other literatures, the chapter argues that the subjugation of post-normal science...

Approaches to Healthcare Operations Management

Chapter 5

Whole Systems/Holistic Approaches in Individual and Collective Levels (pages 57-74)

Murako Saito

In managing complexity and ambiguity, we need holistic or whole systems approaches. Complementary systemic approaches to integrate some separate systems are needed for fostering organizational adaptability or organizational...

Chapter 6

Conceptual Levels of Information Processing and Information Interpretation in Knowledge Management (pages 75-90)

Murako Saito

In managing knowledge, conceptual confusion on information arises frequently among researchers in different disciplines. The term of information is defined at least into four: data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Procedural ways...

Chapter 7

The Intelligence Continuum and Emergency and Disaster Scenarios (pages 91-105)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Application of germane knowledge and pertinent information is always important; however, it is imperative in emergency and disaster situations where a few seconds lost reading irrelevant data can translate into loss of life. To...

Chapter 8

Evaluation of Human Action: Foucault's Power/Knowledge Corollary (pages 106-124)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

The people dynamic is especially significant when trying to understand knowledge management. One aspect of interactions between groups of people is the impact of knowledge, be it a gain or a lack of knowledge. The work of Michael...

Chapter 9

Key Considerations for the Adoption and Implementation of Knowledge Management in Healthcare Operations (pages 125-142)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Elie Geisler

The importance of knowledge management (KM) to organizations in today’s competitive environment is being recognized as paramount and significant. This is particularly evident for healthcare both globally and in the U.S. The U.S....

Chapter 10

Realising the Healthcare Value Proposition: The Need for KM and Technology (pages 143-156)

Nilmini Wickramasinghe

Succinctly stated, the healthcare value proposition revolves around access, quality, and value. Healthcare organizations globally are struggling to realize this value proposition with the U.S. being the country noted for having the...

Case Studies Illustrating Key Workplace Issues

Chapter 11

Perceived Organizational Environment and Performance Reliability in the Case of Hospital Nurses (pages 158-171)

Murako Saito

Most hospital organizational environments in Japan are required to redesign the current organization into a new type of organization, namely a knowledge-based or an intelligent organization. Team care formation, for instance, which...

Chapter 12

Roles of Interpersonal Relationships in Improving Organizational Performances in the Case of Hospital Nurses (pages 172-189)

Murako Saito

In this chapter, a comparison of organizational performances representing team reciprocity, communication accuracy, and performance reliability was made with participants’ competence of emotional regulation, communication type, and...

Chapter 13

Interference of Mood States at Work with Perceived Performance, Perceived Efficacy, and Perceived Health (pages 190-204)

Murako Saito

The competencies of self-management and interpersonal relationship management play a crucial role in improving individual and organizational performance. Interference of mood states at work with perceived performance, perceived...

Chapter 14

Causal Relationship among Perceived Organizational Environment, Leadership, and Organizational Learning in Industrial Workers (pages 205-217)

Murako Saito

It does not seem that recent social events occur simply due to the inappropriateness of a particular individual human action or a particular technological system. Most social events are caused largely by insufficient organizational...

Case Studies Illustrating Key Issues and Investigations at the Community Level

Chapter 15

Eye-Movement and Performance during Reading by Cerebral Palsy Patients (pages 219-233)

Mitsuhiko Karashima

This chapter introduced the characteristics of CP patients reading Japanese documents in comparison with fully abled students through two experiments. Experiment 1 was designed to study the characteristics in reading Japanese still...

Chapter 16

Roles of Home Care and Rehabilitation Equipment for the Aged Who Need Care in Improving Performance (pages 234-248)

Hiromi Nishiguchi

In this chapter, some countermeasures are shown for the aged who need care to be able to live their own daily life not only at home, but also in the community, under the situation of worldwide aged society. At first we survey the...

Chapter 17

The First Attempt of Intensive Approaches in Cognitive Rehabilitation in Clients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (pages 249-265)

Masako Fujii

Cognitive rehabilitation (CR) was undertaken by two clients, A and B, using pen and paper method by an exclusive and intensive approach. Client A with very severe TBI showed improved attention and memory deficits and after undergoing...

Chapter 18

Further Directions in Cognitive Rehabilitation in Community- and Home-based Daily Trainings in Clients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (pages 266-281)

Masako Fujii

Community- and home-based daily intense cognitive rehabilitation (CR) of traumatic brain injury (TBI) clients was initiated on the basis on knowledge mentioned in Chapter 17. In the CR, statistically significant changes were...

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