Does health care for knowledge management?

Journal of Knowledge Management - Tập 7 Số 1 - Trang 90-95 - 2003
JohnVan Beveren1
1John Van Beveren is a Lecturer at the School of Business, University of Ballarat, Victoria 3350, Australia ([email protected]).

Tóm tắt

This study explores knowledge management within an Australian regional health care organization. Many barriers inherent in the organizational structure and design of the organization that are indicative of the public health sector have been identified and discussed. From the results and discussion it is concluded that new models, tools and techniques for knowledge management specific to the environment of the public sector and particularly the health sector are required.

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