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UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital

This research develops a knowledge management strategy for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. The hospital is an organizational component of the UCLA Medical Center. The UCLA Medical Center is a large and complex institution. The Medical Center includes several hospitals, clinics, and other health service organizations, and operates in association and conjunction with several health-sciences schools and other health-sciences institutions (Page, 1994).

Developing a Knowledge Management Strategy for the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital

Knowledge management is increasingly an important element of organizational strategy. Organizations, whether they are in the private sector or whether they are in the public sector, must develop strategies for the collection, dissemination, and protection of information required by employees, clients, and external partners is the organizations are to succeed in their missions. Knowledge management involves the management of data in a way that transforms data into useful knowledge (Lim, Ahmed, & Zairi, 1999). Structuring knowledge management into an organization's strategy assures that knowledge management will be an ongoing, coordinated process within the organization that will benefit the organization, it employees, clients, and external partners over the long-term (Drew, 1999). The key to the implementation of an effective and efficient knowledge management strategy is the integration of knowledge management and information technology (Lev, 2000).

Designing the Knowledge Management Strategy

Almost all of the information developed by a hospital organization will relate in some way to specific patients. No information about a person is more sensitive, and no information has a greater stigmatizing potential than does the information stored in personal health records. The application of knowledge management to the construction, maintenance, and distribution of personal health records, the...

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UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 04:16, March 29, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1696429.html