A Conceptual Framework for Community Pediatrics Using Knowledge Management

Knowledge management, the management of corporate and individual knowledge, has been adopted by many organizations,including medicine. However, Knowledge management in community pediatrics, an arm of public health, has not been fullyresearched. Although, medical information systems have been developed over the past decade, they have not fully solved thecapture, retrieval and reuse of medical knowledge. This is because most of the information systems deal with informationtechnologies excluding intellectual resources, which in reality is the most important part of knowledge management. Thispaper proposes a conceptual framework for knowledge management in community pediatrics. First, it gives a high-leveloverview of medical knowledge and knowledge management. Next, it discusses knowledge in the media domain. It explainsthe conceptual framework proposed, giving details of the various knowledge management components. The paper isconcluded with a brief discussion on other application areas of the framework.Keywords: knowledge management; community pediatrics; public health; medical knowledge; medicine.

CPKMS: A Knowledge Management Repository For Community Pediatrics

There has been rapid advancement from data to information-to knowledge in the scope of medicine. Although knowledge management conceptual frameworks and models in medicine have been proposed, there is, however, the need for a knowledge management system to cater for the rural healthcare sector. The purpose of this paper is to capitalize medical knowledge in community pediatrics and make it available to medical users (nurses, community doctors and rural health workers) by identifying, capturing, representing and storing such medical knowledge for reuse and distribution. The study begins with brief theoretical background and then it presents a conceptual framework adapted for the implementation of a prototype. Keywords: Knowledge Management System; Community Pediatrics; Rural Healthcare;                                                        Medicine; Medical Knowledge