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Successful healthcare problem solving often depends on immediate access to information. Unable to consult a library while in a clinical setting, healthcare practitioners and managers must learn to effectively manage knowledge and think on their toes. Knowledge Management (KM) is an ideal system to tap the tacit knowledge individuals hold and distribute this collective wisdom throughout a healthcare institution. Healthcare Knowledge Management: Issues, Advances, and Successes assembles a group of international contributors to explain KM and offer contemporary, clinically relevant lessons in organizational implementation. This book illustrates the effectiveness of KM by investigating real life healthcare-based systems that highlight the diversity of KM applications in the healthcare sector. Healthcare Knowledge Management is a uniquely integrative text—both a tutorial on concepts, theories, and research as well as a practical guide to managing and developing KM in the healthcare setting. Topics covered in this book include: -Clinical Knowledge Management – a model for primary care -The hidden power of social networks and knowledge sharing in health care -Constructing healthcare knowledge -Electronic patient records -Case studies from around the world Rajeev K. Bali, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Coventry University, UK; Leader, Knowledge Management for Healthcare Research subgroup of the Biomedical Computing Research Group (BIOCORE). Ashish N. Dwivedi, PhD, Lecturer, University of Hull, UK.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Informatics. --- Medicine. --- Medical records --- Médecine --- Dossiers médicaux --- Data processing. --- Informatique --- Knowledge management. --- Medical informatics. --- Medical informatics --- Knowledge management --- Information Management --- Information Storage and Retrieval --- Health Facility Administration --- Public Health Informatics --- Medical Informatics --- Information Science --- Informatics --- Health Facilities --- Medical Informatics Applications --- Organization and Administration --- Health Services Administration --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Medical & Biomedical Informatics --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Management of knowledge assets --- Clinical informatics --- Health informatics --- Medical information science --- Health informatics. --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Information science --- Data processing

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When health and human services organizations (new, established, or mature) engage in a strategic planning process, invariably the suggestion is made to offer a public speaker bureau to support their mission. As a pro­fessional in the health and human services field, you probably have encoun­tered, to some degree, the services provided by an organization's speak­ers bureau. You have heard speakers representing organizations or you may have been a staff or volunteer speaker for an organization. Public speaker bureaus are ubiquitous. Providing a public speaker bureau usually makes sense. It provides an easy and relatively inexpensive way to impart useful information to your constituents or the public, or serve as a marketing or fundraising tool. A public speaker bureau can increase your visibility in the communities that you serve or would like to serve. Throughout our score of years of experience in the health and human services fields, we were struck by the lack of attention given to most organ­izations' public speaker bureaus. Again, while most organizations felt the need to have a speakers bureau, relatively little attention was given to the management and evaluation of this service. In fact, few organizations spent quality time determining whether or not a public speaker bureau was, indeed, needed and, if so, what should be its strategic purpose in serving the mission of the organization.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Public Health. --- Health Informatics. --- Medicine. --- Public health. --- Medical records --- Médecine --- Santé publique --- Dossiers médicaux --- Data processing. --- Informatique --- Health facilities. --- Health facilities --- Public speaking --- Information Science --- Preventive Health Services --- Nervous System Physiological Processes --- Behavior --- Verbal Behavior --- Organization and Administration --- Education, Nonprofessional --- Language Arts --- Health Services Administration --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Education --- Language --- Health Services --- Community Health Services --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Health Care --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Phenomena and Processes --- Speech --- Health Education --- Public Relations --- Communication --- Program Development --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Hospitals & Medical Centers --- Administration --- Facilities, Health --- Health care facilities --- Health care institutions --- Health institutions --- Institutions, Health --- Medical care facilities --- Medical care institutions --- Medical facilities --- Study and teaching --- Health informatics. --- Oral communication --- Medical care --- Public health --- EHR systems --- EHR technology --- EHRs (Electronic health records) --- Electronic health records --- Electronic medical records --- EMR systems --- EMRs (Electronic medical records) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Clinical informatics --- Health informatics --- Medical information science --- Information science --- Medicine --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Data processing

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Infections and their complications are a very important clinical area in the intensive care unit setting. Community-acquired infections and nosocomial infections both contribute to the high level of disease acquisition common among critically ill patients. The accurate diagnosis of nosocomial infections and the provision of appropriate therapies, including antimicrobial therapy effective against the identified agents of infection, have been shown to be important determinants of patient outcome. Critical care practitioners are in a unique position in dealing with infectious diseases. They are often the initial providers of care to seriously ill patients with infections. Additionally, they have a responsibility to ensure that nosocomial infections are prevented and that antimicrobial resistance is minimized by prudently employing antibiotic agents. It is the editors' hope that this book will provide clinicians practicing in the intensive care unit with a reference to help guide their care of infected patients. To that end they have brought together a group of international authors to address important topics related to infectious diseases for the critical care practitioner.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Emergency Medicine. --- Pneumology/Respiratory System. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Medicine. --- Microbiology. --- Emergency medicine. --- Critical care medicine. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Pneumology. --- Médecine --- Microbiologie --- Médecine d'urgence --- Soins intensifs --- Maladies infectieuses émergentes --- Intensive care units. --- Nosocomial infections. --- Critical care medicine --- Communicable diseases --- Intensive care units --- Infection --- Patient Care --- Therapeutic Uses --- Communicable Disease Control --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Hospital Units --- Anti-Infective Agents --- Critical Care --- Intensive Care Units --- Cross Infection --- Diagnosis, Differential --- Infection Control --- Diagnosis --- Communicable Diseases --- Community-Acquired Infections --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Public Health Practice --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Health Facilities --- Health Services --- Therapeutics --- Diseases --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Public Health --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Health Care --- Environment and Public Health --- Medicine --- Infectious Diseases --- Emergency Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Communicable diseases. --- Critical care units --- ICUs (Health facilities) --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Hospital wards --- Epidemics --- Emergency medicine

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Electronic prescribing (EP) is a complex discipline, the success of which relies on the successful interplay of system design, data support and clinical practice. It represents the use of electronic systems to facilitate and enhance communication of a prescription or medicine order, and improves legibility and completeness of prescriptions, improves availability of electronic decision support tools at the point of prescribing, enables a comprehensive audit trail, and reduces medication-related errors. These benefits are far-reaching in significance, both in terms of their effects on risk management and risk reduction and their financial impact. Given the likely growth of interest in electronic medicines management, this discussion of relevant design issues and their impact is timely. Electronic Prescribing: Principles and Practice discusses the basic principles of the design and implementation of secondary care electronic medicine management systems, and how they impact hospital workflow and clinical practice. It documents the key aspects of EP systems for use in secondary care, including design issues, data support, benefits and the ways in which electronic medicines management systems can optimize clinical and professional practice.Because of the significance of electronic medicines management to the whole medical supply chain, and the various stakeholders involved in the IT implementations, the book will be of interest to a wide range of professionals, from hospital pharmacists and prescribing physicians to health system managers and informaticians.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Health Informatics. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Public Health/Gesundheitswesen. --- General Practice / Family Medicine. --- Nursing. --- Medicine. --- Family medicine. --- Medical records --- Médecine --- Médecine familiale --- Dossiers médicaux --- Soins infirmiers --- Data processing. --- Informatique --- Drugs --Prescribing --Data processing. --- Drugs --- Medical Order Entry Systems --- Electronic Prescribing --- Medical Records Systems, Computerized --- Hospital Information Systems --- Prescriptions --- Management Information Systems --- Pharmaceutical Services --- Information Systems --- Hospital Administration --- Medical Records --- Organization and Administration --- Medical Informatics Applications --- Records as Topic --- Health Services --- Health Services Administration --- Medical Informatics --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Information Science --- Pharmacy, Therapeutics, & Pharmacology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Data processing --- Prescribing --- Medicaments --- Medications --- Medicine (Drugs) --- Medicines (Drugs) --- Pharmaceuticals --- Prescription drugs --- General practice (Medicine). --- Public health. --- Health informatics. --- Public Health. --- Bioactive compounds --- Medical supplies --- Pharmacopoeias --- Chemotherapy --- Materia medica --- Pharmacology --- Pharmacy --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- EHR systems --- EHR technology --- EHRs (Electronic health records) --- Electronic health records --- Electronic medical records --- EMR systems --- EMRs (Electronic medical records) --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Family practice (Medicine) --- General practice (Medicine) --- Physicians (General practice) --- Medical care --- Health Workforce --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Clinical informatics --- Health informatics --- Medical information science --- Information science