Managing knowledge and technology to foster innovation at the Ohio State University Medical Center.
Biomedical knowledge is expanding at an unprecedented rate-one that is unlikely to slow anytime in the future. While the volume and scope of this new knowledge poses significant organizational challenges, it creates tremendous opportunities to release and direct its power to the service of significant goals. The authors explain how the Center for Knowledge Management at The Ohio State University Medical Center, created during the academic year 2003-04, is doing just that by integrating numerous resource-intensive, technology-based initiatives-including personnel, services and infrastructure, digital repositories, data sets, mobile computing devices, high-tech patient simulators, computerized testing, and interactive multimedia-in a way that enables the center to provide information tailored to the needs of students, faculty and staff on the medical center campus and its surrounding health sciences colleges. The authors discuss how discovering, applying, and sharing new knowledge, information assets, and technologies in this way is a collaborative process. This process creates open-ended opportunities for innovation and a roadmap for working toward seamless integration, synergy, and substantial enhancement of the academic medical center's research, educational, and clinical mission areas.
Cain
Timothy J
TJ
Center for Knowledge Management, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Suite 410 Prior Health Sciences Library, 376 West Tenth Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. cain.2@osu.edu
Rodman
Ruey L
RL
Sanfilippo
Fred
F
Kroll
Susan M
SM
D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003199:Computer Systems; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D019451:Information Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009820:Ohio; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D018511:Systems Integration