Document cycles: Knowledge flows in heterogeneous healthcare information system environments

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Østerlund, Carsten ^a   Boland, Richard J ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE; CIRCULAR PATTERNS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDIES; HEALTH CARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATIONS; KNOWLEDGE FLOWS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; SYSTEM ENVIRONMENTS; SYSTEM USE; WORK PRACTICES;

HOSPITALS; MEDICAL EDUCATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 63349110918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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