Knowledge management

Abstract

The relationship between data, knowledge, wisdom and understanding is explained in this article. There is a need to convert implicit knowledge to explicit knowledge to support several projects within the NHS (and elsewhere), to disseminate good practice, and to provide a sound basis for the different levels of developing clinical decision support systems. Stimulated by increasing access to the Internet, there is a tension between traditional sources of knowledge (e.g. books, individuals recognized as experts), and many different and varied sources of information and knowledge (a wide range of online resources that often are freely available).