Title :
Electronic referrals in the health sector in Norway, challenges on the road from standard to high volume use
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway
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;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2010 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6619-1
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2010.5478450
