Using rapid ethnography to support the design and implementation of health information technologies

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 215, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-27

  Ackerman, Sara ^a   Gleason, Nathaniel ^b   Gonzales, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Health it; Implementation research

Indexed keywords

HEALTH;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTH IT; IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCHES; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES; TECHNICAL DIMENSIONS;

USER CENTERED DESIGN;

ETHNOGRAPHY; FIELD WORK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER TERMINAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER TERMINALS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84957960640     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-560-9-14     Document Type: Article

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