Differentiating KMS Strategy from Business Strategy, KM Strategy and IS/IT Strategy

The era of the new millennium has witnessed a wide range of the revolutionized technology that affects our lives and the way an organization is conducted. The contemporary business sectors start to recognize the potential use of knowledge management in the new organizational processes. As a result, increasing numbers of organizations pay attention to the creative value of leveraging knowledge as one of their potential assets. Therefore, organizations start to focus on knowledge as one of the important elements in competitive advantage that needs to be utilized efficiently and effectively. They have shown a great attention of knowledge management in their business strategy incorporated with technology. The role of technological tools and applications is essential in supporting and enhancing knowledge management strategy. There has been a transition from traditional information system to new a concept of knowledge management system employed by organization to sustain competitive advantage in dynamic and unstable environment. Further, to shift the paradigm of knowledge management systems concept from business sectors, this study focused on the KMS applications and tools particularly in Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) environment. The purpose of this study is to (a) identify the relationship of business strategy, knowledge management (KM) Strategy, knowledge management systems (KMS) strategy, information system (IS) strategy and information technology (IT) strategy, particularly in the context of IHE, (b) describe those strategies and their relationship based on the context of IHE. This will provide guidance and effective methods for formulating the KMS strategy with the aim to align it with business strategies and ensuring success of its implementation

Quiet in the Operating Room! Team STEPPS and OR Distractions

Background and Objective: From the moment that a patient enters the operating room to the time that they are brought to the post anesthesia care unit, a distraction has the potential to lead to an adverse outcome for the patient. During the critical portions of the surgery, it is even more important for all members of the operating staff to be focused and engaging in safe practices. Distractions in the operating room can hinder safe communication and potentially endanger patient safety. Team training has been shown to both improve team communication and reduce distractions. The objective of this project was using Team STEPPS training to reduce distractions during the critical portions of surgery, defined as the time of anesthesia induction, the time out, and the time of emergence from anesthesiahttps://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/1060/thumbnail.jp

A multiple perspectives review of knowledge management literature

This paper reviews articles on knowledge management (KM) research published in journals within the disciplines of Information Systems (IS), Computer Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), Business & Management, and Sociology.Multiple Perspectives Theory (Mitroff and Linstone, 1993) was used as a theoretical framework to classify KM research into three perspectives, namely technical, organizational and personal perspectives.The multiple perspective classification of KM research is then used to analyze articles which discuss research issues related to KM.The review found that the most dominant perspective adopted mainly by researchers is the organizational (O) perspective.The O perspective is adopted mainly by researchers within the social science, and business & management disciplines.KM articles within the O perspective mainly discuss the organization’s capability to manage knowledge as a resource for competitive advantage.The technical (T) perspective of KM research is mainly adopted by researchers within the CS, IT, and IS disciplines. The T perspective of KM research discusses the technology that can be used to support KM process in an organization. Very few articles approach KM from a personal (P) perspective, which discusses attitudes and behavior of KM stakeholders

From the Editors

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. In this issue, Dr. Zukowsky and colleagues describe the value of high-fidelity simulation to train interprofessional teams in high-risk high-stakes care. Their successful model has important implications for preparing teams to perform optimally during critical, and often stressful, clinical situations where expertise in both technical and team skills is imperative for best patient outcomes. Dr. Levinson and colleagues describe an exciting interprofessional care planning course which, for the first time at Jefferson, has brought senior Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), Nursing, Pharmacy and Medical students together to explore robust, multi-faceted, person-centered care plans for patients with complex disabilities. Dr. Salzman provides an overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, an important model for improving primary care and incorporating coordinated interprofessional team care in a re-designed healthcare system. This piece gives an introduction to a new occasional series on Interprofessional Education and Care in the primary care setting

From the Editors

Welcome to this inaugural edition of the Jefferson InterProfessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are delighted to launch this new vehicle to share the exciting programs advancing interprofessional care and education that are happening here at Jefferson and beyond. The Newsletter will be a biannual on-line peer-reviewed publication, which will showcase a range of innovative courses, experiential, simulation, and clinical instruction, and new models of team-based care, all designed to enhance the ability of the healthcare team to meet the mandates of the Institute of Medicine to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, patientcentered care. Interprofessional team-based care has been widely accepted as a key element to a re-designed health-care system; however, evidence for the true effectiveness of interprofessional collaborative care, and the educational interventions that support it, is lacking. We hope this Newsletter will serve as one forum for bringing promising new strategies to your attention as they are developed

From the Editors

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are thrilled to report that participation in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration by faculty and staff at Jefferson is escalating. In this issue, Drs. Manning and Swan provide an overview of the recent Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report that reaffirms the importance of interprofessional collaboration in the classroom and clinical education for health care outcomes. Dr. Herge and colleagues describe a Jefferson example of how IPE can successfully be implemented in an existing discipline specific course. A clinical skills scenario (a woman hospitalized with an acute stroke) was presented in an occupational therapy course to teams of students from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy and pharmacy. The student teams worked with standardized patients/family to develop an interprofessional discharge plan

Vertical distribution of zooplankton and copepod community structure in the Straits of Malacca.

Vertical distribution of zooplankton biomass and abundance, copepod taxonomic composition and species diversity were analyzed at eight stations during an oceanographic expedition along the Straits of Malacca. Samples were collected in vertical hauls (140 μm mesh using 45 cm diameter NORPAC net) from four depth strata. Zooplankton biomass was higher at 10-20 m depth in the central and southern parts of the Straits compared to the other depth layers, but the differences were significant (p<0.05) only in the southern part. A total of 96 species of planktonic copepods belonging to 35 genera were identified in the surveyed area. Except for the 10-20 m depth layer in the northern part of the Straits, copepods were the major fraction of the total zooplankton at all depths. In the northern and central parts of the Straits, the deeper layers had higher species diversity indices than in the surface waters, mainly due to higher evenness in the deeper layers. The lower species diversity in the deeper layers of the southern region was attributed to the dominance of a few species