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Lessons From The Business Sector For Successful Knowledge Management In Health Care: A Systematic Review, Anita Kothari, Nina Hovanec, Robyn Hastie, Shannon Sibbald

Anita Kothari

BACKGROUND: The concept of knowledge management has been prevalent in the business sector for decades. Only recently has knowledge management been receiving attention by the health care sector, in part due to the ever growing amount of information that health care practitioners must handle. It has become essential to develop a way to manage the information coming in to and going out of a health care organization. The purpose of this paper was to summarize previous studies from the business literature that explored specific knowledge management tools, with the aim of extracting lessons that could be applied in the health …