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ICT in Health Care: Sociotechnical Approaches
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Summary: The importance of the social sciences for medical informatics is increasingly recognized. As ICT requires interaction with people and thereby inevitably affects them, understanding ICT requires a focus on the interrelation between technology and its social environment. Socio-technical approaches increase our understanding of how ICT applications are developed, introduced and become a part of social practices. Sociotechnical approaches share several starting points: 1) they see health care work as a social, ‘real life’ phenomenon, which may seem ‘messy’ at first, but which is guided by a practical rationality that can only be overlooked at a high price (i.e. failed systems). 2) They see technological innovation as a social process, in which organizations are deeply affected. 3) Through in-depth, formative evaluation, they can help improve system design and implementation.
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- Authors
- Berg, M., Aarts, J., & van der Lei, J.
- Venue
- Methods of Information in Medicine
- Publisher
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG
- Published
- 2003-04
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 04
- Pages
- 297-301
- ISSN
- 0026-1270 (ISSN-L)
- 2511-705X
- OpenAlex
- W1855188761
- Cited by
- 259
- References
- 42
- FWCI
- 24.41
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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