Fitness for purpose when there are many different purposes: Who are electronic patient records for?

Health Informatics Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 189-198

  Eason, Ken ^a   Waterson, Patrick ^b  

^a Bayswater Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record systems; health care service innovation and IT; IT design and development; IT health care evaluation; sociotechnical systems

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CLINICAL PATHWAY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 84907312980     PISSN: 14604582     EISSN: 17412811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1460458213501096     Document Type: Article

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