Beyond implementation and resistance: how the delivery of ICT policy is reshaping healthcare
Beyond implementation and resistance: how the delivery of ICT policy is reshaping healthcare
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT experts working inside healthcare bureaucracies. We explore the consequences of this, as new centres of knowledge driven by distinctive and often conflicting rationalities come to shape the policy outcomes of strategic importance in healthcare.
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Halford, Susan
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Obstfelder, Aud
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Lotherington, Ann Therese
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January 2009
Halford, Susan
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Obstfelder, Aud
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Lotherington, Ann Therese
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Halford, Susan, Obstfelder, Aud and Lotherington, Ann Therese
(2009)
Beyond implementation and resistance: how the delivery of ICT policy is reshaping healthcare.
Policy & Politics, 37 (1), .
(doi:10.1332/030557308X313714).
Abstract
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT experts working inside healthcare bureaucracies. We explore the consequences of this, as new centres of knowledge driven by distinctive and often conflicting rationalities come to shape the policy outcomes of strategic importance in healthcare.
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Published date: January 2009
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Sociology & Social Policy
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/64391
ISSN: 0305-5736
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