Authors:
Helvi Nyerwanire
1
;
Erja Mustonen-Ollila
1
;
Antti Valpas
2
and
Jukka Heikkonen
3
Affiliations:
1
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
;
2
South Karelia Social and Health Care District, Finland
;
3
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Management, Healthcare, Empirical Research, Case Study, Grounded Theory.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Communication, Collaboration and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge Management Projects
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In this in-depth case study, nine interviews were carried out to investigate knowledge management problems in one healthcare department in a hospital. Based on the Grounded Theory approach, we discovered six thematic knowledge management problem categories: Patient, Patient Data, Physician, Midwife, ICT Systems and Medical Equipment. Each thematic category was further decomposed into multiple items (traits) ranging from 3 to 18 items.