Changing the record: the inter-professional, subjective and embodied effects of electronic patient records

Susan Halford, Aud Obstfelder, Anne-Therese Lotherington

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Abstract

Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self.
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)210-222
Number of pages13
JournalNew Technology, Work and Employment
Volume25
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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