Unintended Consequences of Information Technologies in Health Care-An Interactive Sociotechnical Analysis

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 542-549

  Harrison, Michael I ^a   Koppel, Ross ^b   Bar Lev, Shirly ^c  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c RUPPIN ACADEMIC CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIETY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION;

EID: 34548489645     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2384     Document Type: Article

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