Dr.polit project in short terms:
Electronic Patient Record Stimulates The Communication Factors
Among The Public Health Care Workers In The Community.
Summery
The study of technology has recently become more focused in
various schools of sociology. However, Marxixt, functionalist,
social constructivist, and ethnographic research, have tended to
explain technology development either from macro or micro
perspectives. Further research is needed to increase our
understanding of technology as situated in its social and
institutional contexts, where individual and professional
relations are considered. In this thesis, elements of several
approaches are applied to the study of communication in
community health care.
About ten years ago, EPR (electronic patient record), where
introduced in the home nursery and health institutions in
Trondheim. The documentary system where used only by the first
hand helpers in the health system. They have now started a new
EPR-system to integrate all health service workers to document
electronic. This means that doctors, nurses, assistants and so
on have to registrate their observations and documentation by a
computer. As a matter of fact, this EPR will probably affect the
communication, documentation and organisation structure between
the health care workers. The thesis will see how this aspects
will change by the professions when new EPR is intervened.
Using a comparative case approach, the use of technology will be
studied through interviews with nurses, doctors and
administrative personnel and by observation of the work in the
health care centres in Trondheim.
Veileder: professor Eli Haugen Bunch, UIO, institutt for
sykepleievitenskap
Biveileder: forsker Anne Moen, UIO, InterMedia.