Using interdependence as a predictor of data standards: theoretical and measurement issues
Information and Management
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
The SI challenge in health care
Communications of the ACM
Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations
Organization Science
Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing
Organization Science
A Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks
Management Science
A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm--The Problem-Solving Perspective
Organization Science
Neo-tribes: the power and potential of online communities in health care
Communications of the ACM - Personal information management
Knowledge networks in new product development projects: a transactive memory perspective
Information and Management
A genealogical study of boundary-spanning is design
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue: Action in language, organisations and information systems
Evaluating the Adoption of Enterprise Application Integration in Health-Care Organizations
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Healthcare knowledge management: the art of the possible
AIME'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Knowledge management for health care procedures
Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Pervasive Healthcare
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
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For more than a decade, healthcare reform has emphasized coordinated "patient-centered care". To that end, policymakers have invested in integration of healthcare providers' information flows. Research has studied healthcare providers' information needs but overlooked communicative exchanges among participants in coordinating treatment plan decisions. Consequently, although medical literature asserts that patients should depend on information exchange with healthcare providers to enable participation in treatment plan decisions, the assertion has not been tested. In this paper, the authors conduct an empirical study to elucidate the structure of actors' communications in support of their information dependencies. The findings illustrate that although patients are well connected through personal contact with healthcare providers, patients are disenfranchised from integrated healthcare information systems IS and the potential of IS to support patients' participation in coordinated "patient-centered care" decisions. Furthermore, knowledge asymmetry between patients and healthcare providers should be considered in the selection and design of healthcare IS.