Knowledge Management Challenges in the Healthcare Delivery Market

Dr. Hongsermeier's presentation will outline the essential informatics and knowledge management infrastructures for healthcare delivery organizations attempting to improve healthcare quality, R&D, and workflow simplification. She will outline the challenges that underlie the slow progress being made by vendors and healthcare systems to bring knowledge management technologies commonly used in other industry verticals to healthcare. The ramifications of weak knowledge management infrastructure on clinical trials and drug discovery will be discussed. In addition, she will provide an overview of how Partners is focusing its investments on next-generation clinical systems and knowledge asset management infrastructures to overcome these bottlenecks.