The role of workarounds during an opensource electronic medical record system implementation

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Safadi, Hani ^a   Faraj, Samer ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic medical record; Health information systems; Information systems appropriation; Knowledge creation; Knowledge management; Open source emr; Software workarounds; Work practices

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; OPEN-SOURCE; WORK PRACTICES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL COMPUTING;

MEDICINE;

EID: 84870968762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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