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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

Patient Safety

Karachi, Paistan

After giving the keynote address at the 2nd International Conference on Patient Safety held at AGA Khan University.

eHealth Standardization

Dubai, U.A.E.

Addressing the General Assembly of the International Telecommunication Union (Global Standards Symposium: Global Standards Challenges) in Dubai in 2012.

Signing the Wall

Havana, Cuba

Attended the 13th Global Forum for Health Research in Havana, Cuba in 2009 and had the opportunity to visit some historical places in Havana.

Listening mode

Geneva, Switzerland

Attending the Executive Course on Global Health Policy in Geneva in 2014. Attentive listening is part of good communication.

eHealth Interoperability

Lower Saxony, Germany

Interoperability and lessons learned were the focus of the talk at the Kick-off of eHealth project of the Lower Saxony “Metropolregion,

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This is the official portal of Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

The main objective of this portal is to facilitate communication and knowledge sharing with the colleagues, peers, friends and family members. It includes a biography, list of publications, resources, a blog and powerpoint presentations. It's currently in English but will soon evolve into a bilingual website (Arabic and English). The portal will focus on knowledge management issues, knowledge creation, knowledge translation and the use of information technology in health and in library and information centres. There will be a place for comments.

More About Me

Services

After retirement, I decided to dedicate time for family life, knowledge sharing, networking and volunteering. All my professional activities, after retirement, evolve around one or more components of the knowledge cycle. I believe that the knowledge cycle is meant to promote innovation, strengthen equity and ensure universal access to knowledge. Attaining the full cycle requires appropriate use of technology and ethical framework.

- Consulting and Advising
  Advising organizations and providing them with professional consultation in areas of knowledge management, eHealth, health informatics, medical informatics, medical librarianship, health information systems, computer-based library systems, data management, intellectual property management, knowledge translation, and open access publishing.
- Teaching, Training & Mentorship
  Teaching in higher education institutions for mainly postgraduate students, providing individualized mentoring and group training to staff of knowledge based organizations, libraries and health information systems managers. Engaging human resources management departments in the process of knowledge management is essential. Building bridges between content providers and information technology managers is another focus of capacity building in institutions.
- Research & Development.
  Conducting research aiming to create new knowledge or strengthening existing knowledge bases in the different components of the knowledge cycle. Research in cross-cutting areas especially that knowledge management is multidisciplinary by nature. Teaming up with researchers from other disciplines to create evidence on how knowledge management can add value to the body of knowledge in other disciplines.
- Voluntary Work.
  Providing voluntary services to knowledge based organizations at local, national, regional and international levels. This may include speaking at scientific conferences and meetings, peer-reviewing of papers, writing up editorial pieces, membership in editorial boards and governing bodies, sponsored training by non-government organizations and advisory support.

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The Knowledge Cycle

Creation

Knowledge creation or generation is the process by which data, information and knowledge is created. Creators of these include authors, writers, researchers, inventors, programmers, artists, sculptors, musicians, and journalists and possibly others who create intellectual contents. There are others who facilitate the process of creation or generation of data, information or knowledge including publishing and printing houses, distributors, reproduction services, intellectual property registries, etc.

The whole purpose of creating, organizing and sharing knowledge is to facilitate its utilization. Utilization has been coined knowledge translation which is the mechanism used to convert it to become policies and for practices. It is also called research to practice, putting knowledge into action, implementation science or research utilization depending on culture and discipline. Bridging the know-do gap is in the core of this process. Knowledge is then translated into policies or practices or to educate the public through scientific journalism.

The significance of the knowledge cycle is to better understand the full integration of all its elements. The Cycle can start from any of its elements. To utilize knowledge or use it or translate it into policy and/or action it has to exist first; i.e it has to be created, organized, shared and made accessible. Utilizing knowledge will result in creation of new knowledge. Those who do not use knowledge are not expected to create knowledge. Those who don’t value knowledge will not invest in its creation, organization, sharing, dissemination and utilization. Knowledge is the enemy of ignorance.

Latest publications and presentations

This part of the portal includes the latest published articles, conference papers and powerpoint presentations.

All publications

Discussion of “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health”

February 1, 2017

Road Traffic Related Injury Research and Informatics. New Opportunities for Biomedical and Health Informatics as a Contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals?

September 23, 2015

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Welcome! This is the official portal of Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

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The Knowledge Cycle

Latest publications and presentations

Discussion of “Representation of People’s Decisions in Health Information Systems: A Complementary Approach for Understanding Health Care Systems and Population Health”

Road Traffic Related Injury Research and Informatics. New Opportunities for Biomedical and Health Informatics as a Contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals?

Discussion of “Evidence-based Health Informatics: How Do We Know What We Know?

On the Internet of Things, smart cities and the WHO Healthy Cities

Online eLearning for undergraduates in health

eHealth initiatives to transform health in the Region of the Americas

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Welcome!
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