The major barriers and facilitators for the adoption and implementation of knowledge management in healthcare operations

International Journal of Electronic Healthcare

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Wickramasinghe, Nilmini ^a   Bali, Rajeev K ^b   Geisler, Elie ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adoption; Barriers; Data; Facilitators; Healthcare; Implementation; Information; KM; Knowledge; Knowledge Management; Orthopaedics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORTHOPEDICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547822371     PISSN: 17418453     EISSN: 17418461     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEH.2007.014554     Document Type: Article

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