The coordination of work activities: cooperation and conflict in a hospital context
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Coordination mechanisms: towards a conceptual foundation of CSCW systems design
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on the design of cooperative systems
From the social to the systematic
Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Special issue on studies of cooperative design
A set of principles for conducting and evaluating interpretive field studies in information systems
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for Information Technologies in Medical Work
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
The SI challenge in health care
Communications of the ACM
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Designing Work Oriented Infrastructures
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations
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
"Garbage in, garbage out": extracting disease surveillance data from epr systems in primary care
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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Modem organisations increasingly have to face the challenge of increased complexity and specialisation. The specialisation of work requires professionals, people possessing specialised skills and often having a high level of education. Organisations that face this kind of problem are large hospitals. The implementation of Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) in these hospitals is accordingly expected to reduce complexity and curb specialisation by coordinating work among contexts and different types of users. The paper is based on a hospital department with several different professionals working together. The professionals successfully organise their work and the production of their reports according to a global classification system. This makes the case an illustrative example on how hospitals might take a starting point in EPRs through such a mechanism and may provide some strategies for the implementation of EPRs.