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
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