Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for Information Technologies in Medical Work

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 373-401

  Berg, Marc ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Distributed cognition; Electronic medical record; Information technology; Politics; Reading and writing artifacts; Workpractice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000049607     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008757115404     Document Type: Article

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