Emergency response rooms in action: An ethnographic case-study in Amsterdam

ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Boersma, Kees ^a   Groenewegen, Peter ^a   Wagenaar, Pieter ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergency response rooms; Ethnographic case study; ICT systems in use; Integrated systems

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES; ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE-STUDY; ICT SYSTEMS; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; MEDICAL SERVICES;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84905592032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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