• DocumentCode
    2560656
  • Title

    Electronic referrals in the health sector in Norway, challenges on the road from standard to high volume use

  • Author

    Heimly, Vigdis

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    643
  • Lastpage
    646
  • Abstract
    The main idea behind the paper is to try to find out what the main socio-technical obstacles and enablers for high volume use of collaboration systems in the health sector are. The paper also focuses how the results can be used in design, implementation and deployment of collaborative systems in health care, with electronic referrals used as a case.
  • Keywords
    groupware; health care; medical administrative data processing; Norway health sector; collaborative systems; electronic referrals; socio-technical obstacles; Collaborative work; Communication standards; Costs; Hospitals; Information science; Information systems; Medical services; Roads; Telemedicine; XML; Boundary Spanners; Collaboration; Design; Electronic referral; Health Care;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2010 International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6619-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CTS.2010.5478450
  • Filename
    5478450