Evaluation of hospital portals using knowledge management mechanisms

Chei Sian Lee*, Dion Hoe Lian Goh, Alton Yeow Kuan Chua

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Hospital portals are becoming increasingly popular since they play an important role to provide, acquire and exchange information. Knowledge management (KM) mechanisms will be useful to hospitals that need to manage health related information, and to exchange and share information with their patients and visitors. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of knowledge management mechanisms used by 20 hospital portals from North America and Asia to access, create and transfer knowledge. We developed a systematic and structured approach to evaluate how well the portals captured and delivered information to patients and visitors about the hospitals' business processes, products, services, and customers from the perspective of three KM mechanisms (i.e. knowledge access, knowledge creation and knowledge transfer). Our results show that our selected hospital portals provided varying degrees of support for these KM mechanisms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAsian Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publicationLooking Back 10 Years and Forging New Frontiers - 10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages15-23
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783540770930
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007 - Hanoi, Viet Nam
Duration: Dec 10 2007Dec 13 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4822 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2007
Country/TerritoryViet Nam
CityHanoi
Period12/10/0712/13/07

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Checklist
  • Hospitals
  • Knowledge access
  • Knowledge creation
  • Knowledge management framework
  • Knowledge transfer
  • Portals

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