Coordination by avoidance: Bringing things together and keeping them apart across hospital departments

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, GROUP'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 65-74

  Holten Møller, Naja ^a   Dourish, Paul ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination mechanisms; medical information systems

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ROUTES; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; CSCW SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS DESIGN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT RECORD;

BIOINFORMATICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78751689700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1880071.1880081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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