Items for "Electronic patient record systems"

Big is Beautiful: Electronic Patient Records in Large Norwegian Hospitals 1980s2001

OBJECTIVES: This paper aims to describe and analyze the prolonged efforts spanning close to two decades of developing and using electronic patient records in the large, university-based hospitals in Norway. METHODS: This study belongs to an interpretative approach to the development and use of information systems. RESULTS: The increase in organizational, institutional, political and technological complexity has been seriously underestimated...

Keywords: Electronic patient record systems, evolutionary approach, large hospitals, development strategies