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Just-in-time delivery comes to knowledge management.

Thomas H Davenport1, John Glaser

  • 1Accenture's Institute for Strategic Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Harvard Business Review
|July 27, 2002
PubMed
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Physicians face information overload, risking medical errors. Embedding specialized medical knowledge into clinical technology provides just-in-time support, improving patient safety and reducing errors.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Knowledge Management
  • Clinical Decision Support

Background:

  • Primary care physicians must manage vast amounts of medical information, including diseases, medications, and research.
  • Medical errors, stemming partly from information overload, contribute to significant patient injury and mortality.
  • Traditional knowledge management approaches require substantial effort from knowledge workers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore a novel approach to knowledge management for healthcare professionals.
  • To reduce medical errors by integrating knowledge directly into clinical workflows.
  • To improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Implementing an order-entry system that embeds a massive clinical database.
  • Integrating patient-specific medical records into the decision support system.
  • Testing the system's ability to automatically check physician decisions against clinical knowledge.

Main Results:

  • The system automatically cross-references physician orders with a clinical database and patient records.
  • This embedded knowledge reduces the need for separate knowledge consultation.
  • Potential for similar just-in-time knowledge systems in other fields.

Conclusions:

  • Embedding specialized knowledge into technology offers a more efficient knowledge management solution.
  • This approach can mitigate risks associated with information overload in healthcare.
  • Just-in-time knowledge systems can enhance performance for knowledge workers across various domains.

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