IN BETWEEN CURING AND COUNTING: PERFORMATIVE EFFECTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH HEALTHCARE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Financial Accountability and Management

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 269-288

  Vikkelsø, Signe ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

electronic patient record; healthcare; information infrastructure; performance auditing; standardisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952701533     PISSN: 02674424     EISSN: 14680408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2007.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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