Implementing and adopting electronic health record systems: How actor-network theory can support evaluation

Clinical Governance

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-336

  Cresswell, Kathrin ^a   Worth, Allison ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Case studies; Electronic health record systems; Health services; Multi sited ethnography; Records management; Social shaping of technology; Strong structuration theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 80155133033     PISSN: 14777274     EISSN: 17586038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777271111175369     Document Type: Article

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