Waiting for Godot: Episodes from the history of patient records

Health Information Management: Integrating Information Technology in Health Care Work

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 10-42

  Berg, Marc ^a   Winthereik, Brit Ross ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care practice; Politics of technology; Standardization; The (integrated) patient oriented record; The electronic patient record

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906532112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203563298     Document Type: Chapter

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