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11. Knowledge Management
A range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create,
represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences. These
come from knowledge, of individuals or organizations as processes or practices
and may include information and media, computer science, public health, and
public policy. It is seen as an enabler of organizational learning.
Skills and Knowledge for Knowledge Management:
Accessibility of knowledge

Identification and spread of best practices

Analytics of Big Data

Knowledge exchange across cultures

Capturing and accessing workforce
knowledge (transfer of knowledge, skills &
competencies)

Quality
Safety
Translation of data

Data/Information/Knowledge

Transparency

Ethics

Use of Information Technology

At the dawn of the new millennium, we are faced with a
rapidly changing health care landscape, shifting in
demographics and clients, globalization and technological
explosion, all challenge us to envision and understand the
gravitational forces that affect our health care system because
“Gravity is a force that is hard to shake off.”
Dr. Nadia Emerick,
Presbyterian Village North

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