Information Infrastructures for Health Care: connecting practices across institutional and professional boundaries

TY - JOUR

T1 - Information Infrastructures for Health Care

T2 - connecting practices across institutional and professional boundaries

AU - Bansler, Jørgen P.

AU - Kensing, Finn

PY - 2010/12

Y1 - 2010/12

N2 - The 2010 special issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work explores different aspects of infrastructures for health care. Pollock and Williams deal with theoretical and research methodological shortcomings of many infrastructural studies and argue for theoretically informed, multi-site and longitudinal studies. Ellingsen and Roøed develop an ANT approach in analyzing an empirical study of the complexity of establishing and sustaining integration between different information infrastructures. Piras and Zanutto focus on personal health records and the cooperative work they are intended to support to reflect upon the necessity of new infrastructures required to connect not only professional settings but also the home environment. Bossen and Markussen propose the concept of ordering devices, which order information, stipulate action, and coordinate interaction across and within social worlds, and achieve this through the flexible support of different kinds of ordering.

AB - The 2010 special issue of Computer Supported Cooperative Work explores different aspects of infrastructures for health care. Pollock and Williams deal with theoretical and research methodological shortcomings of many infrastructural studies and argue for theoretically informed, multi-site and longitudinal studies. Ellingsen and Roøed develop an ANT approach in analyzing an empirical study of the complexity of establishing and sustaining integration between different information infrastructures. Piras and Zanutto focus on personal health records and the cooperative work they are intended to support to reflect upon the necessity of new infrastructures required to connect not only professional settings but also the home environment. Bossen and Markussen propose the concept of ordering devices, which order information, stipulate action, and coordinate interaction across and within social worlds, and achieve this through the flexible support of different kinds of ordering.

KW - Faculty of Science

U2 - 10.1007/s10606-010-9130-y

DO - 10.1007/s10606-010-9130-y

M3 - Editorial

SN - 0925-9724

VL - 19

SP - 519

EP - 520

JO - Computer Supported Cooperative Work

JF - Computer Supported Cooperative Work

IS - 6

ER -