Guest editorial

Vijay Pereira, Cary L. Cooper, Rajesh Chandwani, Arup Varma, Shlomo Yedidia Y. Tarba
2021 Journal of Knowledge Management  
systems, suggest that we need to understand the concept of KM in the health-care domain even further. ICT-based KM can potentially overcome several challenges in health-care through the following ways: By addressing, the issues related to information overload by providing focused access to relevant knowledge at the required time and place and in an appropriate form such as clinical settings or community health. By enhancing implementation of standardized and evidence-based provision of advise
more » ... d treatment so as to increase efficiency and reduce clinical errors. By supporting the development of health-care providers at multiple levels through collaboration and affecting diffusion of knowledge (Bose, 2003; Wills et al., 2010) . Several nuances of health-care in the EEs make it a unique and distinct challenge for ICT and KM. EEs characterize poor infrastructure, especially with respect to electricity, digital infrastructures and limited institutional support for the ICT ecosystem (Luo and Bu, 2016) . Whilst the context of EEs, regarded traditionally as technologically challenging, newer technology developments have attempted to overcome the same and have been quite successful in doing so. Recently, the penetration of ICT in EEs have burgeoned, resulting in the increasing incorporation of ICT in health-care.
doi:10.1108/jkm-02-2021-0086 fatcat:vjo7yjyn5nb2tm3rcmmm43yqgm