Knowledge Management and Information Technology
About KMIT
The Health Sciences Center is fortunate to have a wealth of expertise
among its health researchers, educators, clinicians, and information
technologists. Through the myriad collaborations among these talented
individuals, KMIT endeavors flourish.
The Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center (HSLIC) currently
serves as a central hub for coordinating KMIT activities. HSLIC actively
seeks, provides, and plans for the best health care and educational
technologies and programs.
Explore this site to discover how KMIT activities are spurring the
Health Sciences Center to new heights.
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing
extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we
use those languages, or we remain mute." - J.G. Ballard
KMIT Guiding Principles
In 2000, the KMIT Advisory Council developed their working
definitions of knowledge management and information technology. From
these definitions the group articulated a vision for the UNMHSC as a
comprehensive, easily-accessible, electronic healthcare resource and
leader for the State of New Mexico.
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Knowledge management creates a user-centered
environment that ensures easy access to and ethical use of
appropriate information resources. Effective policy and
training, as well as a ubiquitous, unobtrusive information
technology infrastructure are essential to a knowledge
management program providing stewardship of the collection,
storage, organization, retrieval, archiving, and access to data
and information.
Information technology supports knowledge
management and includes a variety of devices and the
connectivity that links them, in order to enable all forms of
electronic communication.
Our vision fosters the creation of a knowledge management
environment to maximize the power of information technologies.
To achieve that vision:
- Data gathering takes place once, accurately, and at
the original source. Data is integrated and is gathered
in anticipation of future needs.
- Information is available in a timely, useful, and
intuitive way to those with the need to know.
- The UNMHSC environment enriches knowledge-based
interactions and decisions, and eliminates all process
steps that do not add value.
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