Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on computational research on interaction and agency, part 2
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
Of maps and scripts—the status of formal constructs in cooperative work
GROUP '97 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work: the integration challenge
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for Information Technologies in Medical Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A Patchwork Planet Integration and Cooperation in Hospitals
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Making a Case in Medical Work: Implications forthe Electronic Medical Record
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
ICT and Integrated Care: Some Dilemmas of Standardising Inter-Organisational Communication
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Ordering Systems: Coordinative Practices and Artifacts in Architectural Design and Planning
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
A web of coordinative artifacts: collaborative work at a hospital ward
GROUP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Representations at work: a national standard for electronic health records
CSCW '06 Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Seamless Integration: Standardisation across Multiple Local Settings
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Cognitive properties of a whiteboard: a case study in a trauma centre
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking
Organization Science
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Documents in Place: Demarcating Places for Collaboration in Healthcare Settings
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Electronic medication management: a socio - technical change process in clinical practice
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Pervasive Computing for Hospital, Chronic, and Preventive Care
Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction
A Review of 25 Years of CSCW Research in Healthcare: Contributions, Challenges and Future Agendas
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Reflections on 25 Years of Ethnography in CSCW
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
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In this paper, we analyse physicians' and nurses' practices of prescribing and administering medication through the use of paper-based, and digitalized medication plans. Our point of departure is an ethnographic study of the implications of upgrading an electronic medication module (EMM) that is part of an electronic health record (EHR), carried out at an endocrinology department. The upgrade led to a temporary breakdown of the EMM, and a return to paper-based medication plans. The breakdown made visible and noticeable the taken-for-granted capabilities of medication plans in their paper-based and digital versions, and the distribution of functionalities between medication plans and clinicians. We see the case as an opportunity to analyse infrastructuring in health care, the process by which medical practices and artefacts become parts of social and technological networks with longer reaches and more channels through which coordination among distributed actors is enabled and formed. In this case, infrastructuring means an extended scope and intensity of the coordinative capabilities of medication plans, and an increased vulnerability to, and dependency on events outside the immediate loci of interaction. We particularly note the capacity of the EMM to facilitate different kinds of ordering of information and practices, and propose the conceptualizing of such digitalized artefacts as `ordering devices'. Ordering devices order information, stipulate action, and coordinate interaction across and within social worlds, and achieve this through the flexible support of different kinds of ordering.