Sociotechnical changes brought about by electronic medical record

15th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2009, AMCIS 2009

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 6930-6938

  Boulus, Nina ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Electronic medical record; Hospital information systems; Qualitative research; Sociotechnical changes; Technology adaptation

Indexed keywords

ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOTECHNICAL; TECHNOLOGY ADAPTATION;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

MEDICINE;

EID: 84870367117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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