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April 2016
Center for Knowledge Management
The Center for Knowledge Management (CKM), led by Dr. Nunzia Bettinsoli Giuse, supports the
information-strata of the organization through innovative processes of knowledge acquisition,
organization, and dissemination. CKM functions as an integrated information center,
responsive to the institution’s needs and central to its mission. The purpose of CKM is to create
and share new knowledge by capturing, managing, and transforming external and internal, hard
and experiential data into a reusable format. CKM information scientists possess an in-depth
understanding of sound practices in information management, spanning a wide-array of
disciplines from knowledge mining, content filtering, information seeking, and data
organization. Leveraging these abilities, CKM professionals extract tacit knowledge residing
within medical center personnel and systems, elicit the subjective insight of experts, and curate
explicit knowledge. Diagnosing and analyzing this collected information, CKM creates new
products and services for wide-scale information reuse which increase immediate and longterm institutional effectiveness. CKM facilitates facilitate a collaborative environment which
cuts across the cognitive diversity and wealth of expertise of the institution, actively
contributing its knowledge as one of the key sources of competitive advantage for the
organization and the community-at-large (e.g., social behavioral determinants of
health/population health informatics).
CKM offers a wide range of services to support the medical center, including:
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Consultation on and/or implementation of clinical metadata tagging, content
organization, and electronic archives
Evidence provision for clinical decision support (i.e. content development and
maintenance)
Consultation on precision medicine resources and tools to facilitate workflow
integration
Evidence provision to aid precision medicine research, clinical studies, and publications
(e.g. structural and functional consequence of genetic variants)
Assistance with designing and/or conducting systematic reviews
Genetic educational content development for patients tailored to reflect both learning
style preferences and health literacy level
Creation of modules and individualized learning portfolios with clearly identifiable and
targeted skills and competencies for professional education curriculum development
Consultation on strategies for enhancing adult learning through a well-developed and
tested train-the-trainer learning module
Consultation on research regarding social and behavioral determinants of health