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

Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Anne-Therese (2010) Changing the record: the inter-professional, subjective and embodied effects of electronic patient records. New Technology, Work and Employment, 25 (3), 210-222. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-005X.2010.00249.x).

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.

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