Heath Care Management Using Knowledge Management and Information Technology

The health care industry is a vital part of any country and its economy. The health care industry seek increasingly to improve quality by improving clinical outcomes, patient experiences and a business case that support movement toward 'patient-centered care'. The health care industry by becoming knowledge based community. This can be done by creating communication between many hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and customers. The sharing of knowledge should be increased, the reduction of administrative costs and improvement in the quality of care. The health care will be able to do this by using knowledge management (KM) and information technology (IT). This research study seeks to come up with a framework that investigates the different dimensions of knowledge management and IT and how it will help in improving health care. In order to come up with a framework the three elements of KM which are knowledge acquisition, knowledge application and knowledge dissemination and use of IT to make it efficient. If properly used IT can accelerate knowledge-sharing capabilities in both time and space dimensions. Locality, timing, and relevancy factors determine the expediency and the strength of IT' s role in KM initiatives.