Informatics for Health Professionals

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Generating and Managing Organizational Knowledge

Dee McGonigle and Kathleen Mastrian

OBJECTIVES

1. Assess health care as knowledge-intensive professions.

2. Explore the contribution of health informatics to the foundation of knowledge.

Key Terms

Codify

Data

Health informatics

Information

Information technology

Knowledge

Knowledge acquisition

Knowledge dissemination

Knowledge domain process

Knowledge generation

Knowledge management systems

Knowledge repositories

Knowledge workers

Introduction

Throughout this text, the reader has learned about the many facets of health informatics (HI) and the interfacing of knowledge workers and technology. The Foundation of Knowledge model (Figure 20-1) has provided a framework for examining the dynamic ...