A Fit between Clinical Workflow and Health Care Information Systems: Not waiting for Godot but making the journey
Institution: | Erasmus University |
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Year: | 2009 |
Keywords: | health care communication; health care information systems; medical informatics |
Record ID: | 1251238 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1765/17376 |
abstractHealth care has long suffered from inefficiencies due to the fragmentation of patient care information and the lack of coordination between health professionals [1]. Health care information systems (HISs) have been lauded as tools to remedy such inefficiencies [2, 3]. The primary idea behind the support of their implementation in health care is that these systems support clinical workflow and thereby decrease medical errors [2]. However, their introduction to health care settings have been accompanied by a transformation of the way their primary users, care providers, carry out clinical tasks and establish or maintain work relationships [4]. Studies have shown that these transformations have not always been productive [5, 6].text