Michael Christopher Gibbons

Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health - Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age Michael Christopher Gibbons 2010 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Jacket Description/Back: Urban Health Knowledge Management Michael Christopher Gibbons, Rajeev K. Bali, and Nilmini Wickramasinghe It is a tragic paradox of American health care: a system renowned for world-class doctors, the latest medical technologies, and miraculous treatments has shocking inadequacies when it comes to the health of the urban poor. Urban Health Knowledge Management outlines bold, workable strategies for addressing this disparity and eliminating the knowledge islands that so often disrupt effective service delivery. The book offers a wide-reaching global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. Its contributors understand the issues fluently, imparting both macro and micro concepts of KM with clear rationales and real-world examples as they: Analyze key aspects of KM and explains their applicability to urban health. Introduce the KM tools and technologies most relevant to health care delivery. Offer evidence of the role of KM in improving clinical efficacy and executive decision-making. Provide extended case examples of KM-based programs used in Washington, D. C. (child health), South Africa (HIV/AIDS), and Australia (health inequities). Apply KM principles to urban health needs in developing countries. Discuss new approaches to managing, evaluating, and improving delivery systems in the book s Measures and Metrics section. Urban health professionals, as well as health care executives and administrators, will find Urban Health Knowledge Management a significant resource for bringing service delivery up to speed at a time of great advancement and change."Biographical Note: M. Chris Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, Director of the Center for Community HEALTH and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently President of the International Society for Urban Health. Rajeev K. Bali is a Reader in Healthcare Knowledge Management at Coventry University (UK). He is a Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Healthcare Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, USA). Nilmini Wickramasingh is the professor of Business IT & Logistics at RMIT University, Australia. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe is the editor-in-chief of two scholarly journals: International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations and International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology. Table of Contents: Section I KM and Urban Health.- Chapter 1: Knowledge Management for the Urban Health Context.- Chapter 2: Healthcare Knowledge Management: Incorporating the Tools, Technologies, Strategies and Processes of KM to Effect Superior Healthcare Delivery.- Chapter 3: Knowledge Management in the Urban Health Context: Moving Towards Tacit-to-Tacit Knowledge Transfer.- Section II Incorporating KM Principles into Urban Health Contexts.- Chapter 4: A Childhood / Adolescent Knowledge Management System for Urban Area Health Programs in the District of Columbia.- Chapter 5: Urban Health in Developing Countries.- Chapter 6: A Pervasive Wireless Knowledge Management Solution to Address Urban Health Inequalities with Indigenous Australians.- Chapter 7: The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa.- Chapter 8: The potential of Serious Games for Combating Health Inequalities.- Section III Measures and Metrics for KM and Urban Health.- Chapter 9: A Scaleable and Viable Strategy for Managing Organizing: Typology for Intervening into Complex Healthcare Environments for Enhancing Continual Development.- Chapter 10: Amplifying Resonance in Organizational Learning Process: Knowledge Sharing for Overcoming Cognitive Barriers and for Assuring Positive Action.- Chapter 11: Developing New Urban Health Metrics to Reduce the Know-Do Gap in Public Health.- Chapter 12: Recommendations on Evaluation and Development of Useful Metrics for Urban Health.- Chapter 13: Making Sense of Urban Health KnowledgePublisher Marketing: It is a tragic paradox of American health care: a system renowned for world-class doctors, the latest medical technologies, and miraculous treatments has shocking inadequacies when it comes to the health of the urban poor. Urban Health Knowledge Management outlines bold, workable strategies for addressing this disparity and eliminating the knowledge islands that so often disrupt effective service delivery. The book offers a wide-reaching global framework for organizational competence leading to improved care quality and outcomes for traditionally underserved clients in diverse, challenging settings. Its contributors understand the issues fluently, imparting both macro and micro concepts of KM with clear rationales and real-world examples as they: Analyze key aspects of KM and explains their applicability to urban health. Introduce the KM tools and technologies most relevant to health care delivery. Offer evidence of the role of KM in improving clinical efficacy and executive decision-making. Provide extended case examples of KM-based programs used in Washington, D. C. (child health), South Africa (HIV/AIDS), and Australia (health inequities). Apply KM principles to urban health needs in developing countries. Discuss new approaches to managing, evaluating, and improving delivery systems in the book s Measures and Metrics section. Urban health professionals, as well as health care executives and administrators, will find Urban Health Knowledge Management a significant resource for bringing service delivery up to speed at a time of great advancement and change."

Contributor Bio:  Gibbons, Michael Christopher Michael Christopher Gibbons is Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute and Assistant Professor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was recently elected President of the International Society for Urban Health. One of Gibbonsa (TM)s research interests is the development of effective health interventions to reduce health disparities. He is the founding director of the Center for Community Health Education, Advocacy and Leadership Training at Hopkins (HEALTH), is a member of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, and was named a Health Disparities Scholar by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health. Contributor Bio:  Wickramasinghe, Nilmini Nilmini Wickramasinghe was born in Sri Lanka. After completing five degrees from The University of Melbourne, Australia, she accepted a full scholarship to undertake PhD studies with Michael Ginzberg at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio in the United States of America. During this time she was involved with many research projects focusing on health care issues. Currently, Dr. Wickramasinghe is an assistant professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the James J. Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University, Ohio USA. Here she teaches Information Systems at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the areas of knowledge management as well as e-commerce and m-commerce, IT for competitive advantage organizational impacts of technology and healthcare issues. In addition, Dr Wickramasinghe teaches and presents regularly in many universities in Europe and Australia. Dr Wickramasinghe is honored to be able to represent the United States of America for the Health Care Technology Management (HCTM) Association.