title: Clinical knowledge management: an overview of current understanding.
abstract: This chapter outlines contributions to a workshop for ICMCC 2005. We details some of the central issues surrounding the incorporation of the Knowledge Management (KM) paradigm for the healthcare and clinical sectors. The complex nature of KM is discussed, together with some essential theories and some contemporary applications of the tools and techniques are presented.
authors.affiliation: Knowledge Management for Healthcare (KMH) research subgroup, Biomedical Computing Research Group (BIOCORE), Coventry University, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rajeev K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Bali
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dwivedi
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D058436:Knowledge Management