Knowledge Management in Health: An Australian Viewpoint

Abstract

this study explores knowledge management within an Australian healthcare arena. The healthcare sector is the knowledge-based profession. It is an immature arena of researchand hence needs to be researched by empirical research and theoretical constructs. Given the multifaceted arena of the healthcare sector, there is still an escalating obstacle of understanding the mode of knowledge management in the healthcare arena. The paper explains the application of Q method as a cohesive and applied method to the knowledgecreation, sharing and storing within organizational health arena. The study proposed knowledge management as a theoretical construct to implement the knowledge-based approach to improve the decision-making process.