Context: The extensive research literature on electronic patient records (EPRs) presents
challenges to systematic reviewers because it covers multiple research traditions with …

A comprehensive systematic review of telemedicine in burn care was carried out. Studies
published between 1993 and 2010 were included. The main outcome measures were the …

The importance of the social sciences for medical informatics is increasingly recognized. As
ICT requires interaction with people and thereby inevitably affects them, understanding ICT …

In almost all Western countries, concerted efforts are made to stimulate the use of
information and communication technology (ICT) in health care. Yet the number of success …

Background Clinical information systems have long been used in intensive care units but
reports on their adoption and benefits are limited. This study evaluated a Critical Care …

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It
uses the sociology of professionals' literature together with a theory of affordances to …

Based on an actor-network study of the way in which medical work in a hospital has
changed after the introduction of an electronic patient record system, the paper addresses …

Background In contrast to the acute hospital sector, there have been relatively few
implementations of integrated electronic health record (EHR) systems into specialist mental …

Recent research on the development and use of information and communication technology
(ICT) has focused on the emergent use of technology in practice and the multiplicity of …

Background: Numerous studies have examined specific factors related to success, failure
and implications of Electronic patient record (EPR) system implementations, but usually …