Manuscript Title:

INFORMATION SHARING AMONG MEDICAL AND NON- MEDICAL EMPLOYEES WORKING IN PRIVATE HOSPITALS AND HEALTH CARE UNITS

Author:

Dr. M.R.VANITHAMANI, R.PAVITHRA, ABHISHEKNARAYAN. J

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/A5F9K

Published : 2022-07-10

About the author(s)

1. Dr. M.R.VANITHAMANI - Professor.
2. R.PAVITHRA - Assistant Professor.
3. ABHISHEKNARAYAN. J - Assistant Professor Department of Management Studies ,Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore.

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Abstract

In this Presentsituation, information sharing in hospitals are significantly supports theirstabs to advancetreatment quality, keep patients, advance people health and decreaseexpenses. Hence, these days many hospitals have made improvement in information sharing among various departments working inside the hospital as well as with other health care partners, patients and public agencies to make certain high class medical services through their investments in Health IT and electronic health records (EHRs). Information sharing helps the staff to enhance their learning ability and also helps the hospitals in retaining the knowledge and their potential workers. Hence this research study was doneby the researchers with an objective to study and analyze the information sharing practices among the employees working in various private hospitals and health care units located in Trichy District, Tamilnadu. The survey was conducted using a structured self -prepared questionnairewith five scale rating and the data was collected from 200 respondents belonging to various private hospitals and health care units. The analysis was done using various statistical tools and the results, findings and implications were discussed in the paper.


Keywords

Knowledge sharing behavior, knowledge retention, culture, social learning, etc.