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, Finland
;
3
European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy
Keyword(s):
Healthcare, grounded theory, knowledge management, intelligent computing.
Abstract:
This study presents a research plan for a doctoral thesis about Knowledge Management in Healthcare. It outlines objectives, research problems, state of the art, methodology and expected outcome. The study introduces current knowledge management concepts, the research questions, and a conceptual framework of knowledge management processes. It also outlines data collection methods and data analyzing methods. In this study both qualitative analyzing methods with the grounded theory approach and quantitative data analysis with novel intelligent computing and analyzing methods are applied. This doctoral study is planned to take a total of five (5) years (January 2012- January 2017) in which the output will be five (5) conference articles, and one journal article. Furthermore, a relevant introductory section of the thesis will be written in this period. One conference article has been accepted in 2012, another conference article was submitted for a review in 2014, and one journal article i
n under work.
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