Elicitation of Tacit Knowledge Inside a Clinical Process Using the FRAM

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This poster highlights the qualitative study which was conducted in a major regional hospital in Germany, using the FRAM to analyze the recurrent and complex process of surgical care preparation in the morning. The aim was to offer the hospital a detailed qualitative analysis to promote resilience and maintain a safe state of operating during this process. The FRAM illustrated relevant system functions and unveiled sources as well as effects or variabilities that are now in the process of being evaluated according to appropriate goals and values. In this way, the FRAM illuminates hidden but relevant knowledge, so to speak tacit knowledge, within a complex sociotechnical system that is difficult or impossible to identify otherwise.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Aschwer, Carmen; Mühlbradt, Thomas; Unger, Helga; Fastner, Christian; Schröder, Stefan & Speer, Tillmann
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Surfacing by Expert Created Knowledge Connections

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. Since the conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency. This poster demonstrates the GuruScan in a practical interactive session. The presenter setup an online GuruScan Knowledge Booster, so audience can experience the power and speed of Expert created knowledge connections themselves.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Verheijen, Bart
System: The UNT Digital Library

Level of Adoption and Use of KM Practices in Supply Chains of Manufacturing Companies

Business competition increasingly involves entire supply chains (SCs) rather than individual firms. Thus, knowledge, which is a strategic resource for companies, needs to be managed properly not only in single firms, but also at inter-firm level and in SCs, so that companies can coordinate and co-manage resources, activities, and innovative efforts in collaboration with their partners for improved competitiveness. To this end, knowledge management (KM) practices and their adoption for the effective management of SC inter-firm relationships can be of great help, but the current studies on this aspect are very fragmented, and there is still insufficient knowledge of what practices are adopted to manage knowledge in inter-firm relationships and how intensely these are used. This study contributes to filling this gap by measuring the adoption and intensity of KM practices and comparing their use at the intra- and inter-firm level. A survey of a sample of European large and medium-sized manufacturing firms was used. A descriptive statistical analysis and a correlation analysis were performed on the collected data. The study confirms that KM practices are less used at the inter-firm level. Also, a relative higher variation is depicted among firms in the use of the proposed practices at inter-firm …
Date: June 2022
Creator: Kassaneh, Tomas Cherkos; Bolisani, Ettore; Scarso, Enrico & Navarro, Juan Gabriel Cegarra
System: The UNT Digital Library

Factors Affecting Late Medication Administration in the Hospital Setting

This pilot study extends nursing’s historical efforts to prevent medication errors by using a database research approach to better understand why medication errors persist in acute care settings. The pilot study was conducted 3 units and float pool nurses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multilevel regression modeling.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Estes, Carey & McCoy, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library

Global Sentiment Towards COVID-19 on Twitter

Twitter is one of the major social media platforms highlighting public opinion. With over 330 million users across the globe, Twitter provides insights into global sentiments on many topics. One can estimate global sentiments towards certain events relating to COVID-19 by analyzing the most common phrases and their related sentiment scores from Twitter API data. This project has compiled the most used trigrams in tweets relating to COVID-19 to calculate sentiment scores for the period from March 22 to August 7, 2020. Another goal of the project is to optimize data collection from Twitter API. Twitter limits access to tweet contents to 900 requests per 15 minutes for unpaid API users. For student data scientists, paying for increased API usage is financially infeasible. So, to deal with the rate limit, the project has written functions using the Tweepy python library to collect Twitter API data. The Pandas library has also been used to sample 139000 tweets from over 300 million. The IEEE Dataset provided sentiment scores for the full population. So, to check the integrity of my sample, I performed a Pearson correlation test between the full dataset and sample data, and got 0.84, showing the sample is representative of …
Date: December 2020
Creator: Auroni, Neil
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Management in the Technical Information Center/Library of a Navy Lab and as a Whole, as well as Metrics to Measure the Scientific Health of a R&D Center

In order to perform research data triangulation, there were three main sources of data: 1. External/Internal Survey of 15 Library Directors (5 in the Navy; 10 from Government/Universities), 2. Literature Review/Industry Best Practices, and 3. Navy Lab Interviews (Ten) . The results include "Harvest” the personal collections of classified and other materials (reach out to the end users to put documents in library repository); Need to modernize our workflow; Having research material that can be easily accessed for desktops; Need to share information and knowledge; Focus on the needs of your community and evolve with those needs.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Liebowitz, Jay
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mitigating Usability Issues in Legacy EHR Systems to Improve Patient Safety: A Learning Health System Approach

This paper describes an on-going research project examining currently used processes in both hospitals and EHR vendor companies for identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating electronic health record (EHR) software issues, and usability issues, that may compromise patient safety as they arise in the implemented or legacy EHR system. This on-going project includes 3 interviews with CMIOs at hospitals and 3 interviews with EHR vendors. Next steps include surveying both groups. The project can be considered as part of a learning health system (LHS) approach in that it seeks to identify best practices in terms of the process for addressing these EHR issues. The LHS approach seeks to improve long term outcomes in health care by identifying optimal delivery processes and to do so in a systematic, rather than a haphazard way. (Friedman & Rigby, 2013).
Date: December 2020
Creator: Meehan, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Query Expansion to Improve Findability of Resources Addressing Multiple Chronic Conditions

With advances in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), there are new opportunities for improving findability among existing public-facing resources. This project seeks to inform findability, especially for multiple chronic condition (MCC) resources, by describing current search capabilities and limitations across several of AHRQ’s publicly available domains and by identifying and piloting a novel NLP/ML approach to make suggested improvements. This work intentionally engages with the overlap of numerous disciplines including information extraction, information retrieval, data and text mining, knowledge management, and best practices in health care. We are looking to apply this work across all domains but will start by focusing on specific AHRQ domains. Given limited API access, we scraped the content of digital.ahrq.gov and the patient centered medical home (PCMH) resources and performed automated search using a set of related terms that align with an MCC scenario: hypertension, osteoarthritis, and chronic kidney disease. We obtained results confirming the limitations of existing search.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Marcial, Laura Haak; Santini, Silas; Kery, Caroline; Brown, Stephen; Chew, Rob & Blumenfeld, Barry
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Challenges Of Implementing A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster examines the challenges of data managements and use in K-12 education through the technical, knowledge, application, climate and cultural aspects.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Jim, Cary K.; Schultz-Jones, Barbara & Ledbetter, Cynthia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Innovation and Knowledge Management

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster describes knowledge management values within a supportive software platform.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Zhang, Xiaoru & Wang, Xin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Facilitating Knowledge Transfer of Data Sharing Practices

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster discusses data sharing practices and compliance with open data mandates by using the Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) knowledge transfer spiral model to understand behaviors and create resources for researchers.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

From User Reviews to Theory Building: An Inductive Approach to Construct Identification Using Text Mining

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster demonstrates the utility of text analytic for theory building and validation in information science.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Nguyen, Quynh N. & Sidorova, Anna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Investigating Teachers' Perceptions of Academic Versus Creative Giftedness Using the Network Text Analysis

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster discusses classroom teachers' perception about academic versus creative giftedness.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Lee, Seon-Young; An, Donggun & Kim, Sungyeun
System: The UNT Digital Library

Managing Project Teams with Artificial Intelligence

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster explores the use of artificial intelligence in business to improve organizational effectiveness.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Floyd, Schenita A.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge: Faculty Views on Open Access Repositories as a New Channel of Scholarly Communication

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster describes a study of faculty members' perceptions on open access publishing.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti
System: The UNT Digital Library

Theory Informed Learning Analyics: The Power of Big Data in Digital Age

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster proposes a system of rapid automated assessment of student participation and performance quality in collaborative learning.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Xing, Wanli
System: The UNT Digital Library