Knowledge management and content integration: a collaborative approach.

Knowledge Management (KM) is the development and maintenance of decision support knowledge within clinical healthcare systems. At Partners Healthcare System (PHS), Knowledge Management is facilitated by a dedicated team consisting of Subject Matter Experts (SME), Knowledge Engineers (KE), and software developers. This group relies upon sound knowledge management principles to support the knowledge lifecycle.

A study on design and development of enterprise-wide concepts for clinical documentation templates.

Structured clinical documents are associated with many potential benefits. Underlying terminologies and structure of information are keys to their successful implementation and use. This paper presents a methodology for design and development of enterprise-wide concepts for clinical documentation templates for an ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.