Discovering how to think about a hospital patient information system by struggling to evaluate it: a committee's journal.
Parallel to the monumental problem of replacing paper-and-pen-based patient information management systems with electronic ones is the problem of evaluating the extent to which the change represents an improvement. All clinicians must grapple with this daunting challenge; those with little or no informatics expertise may be particularly surprised by the attendant difficulties. To do so successfully, they must be able to explicitly conceptualize the daily clinical work-a prerequisite for appreciating [...]
Author(s): Schulman, Joseph, Kuperman, Gilad J, Kharbanda, Anupam, Kaushal, Rainu
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2436