| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R86751/01 |
| Title: |
Powerful yet fragile instruments of change : Understanding the Development, Deployment and Use of Electronic Health Records |
| Principal Investigator: |
Procter, Professor R |
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| Department: |
Sch of Informatics |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 September 2002 |
Ends: |
28 February 2006 |
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140,112
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| Human-Computer Interactions |
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This proposal sets out a programme of research into key issues for the adoption of the EHR, with a focus on what we argue is the critical problem for the EHR: how to define and achieve a balance between 'global', standardised solutions and localised implementations.Building on earlier research, the proposal aims to examine the fundamental assumptions surrounding the adoption and use of the EHR and devise more organizationally appropriate and practical strategies for its the design and deployment. Present approaches, in seeking to impose standardised solutions to record integration, fail to grasp the importance of local work practices, uses and meaning of information. The research will explore strategies, techniques and technologies for achieving an appropriate balance between local variation and global solutions. These will include developing patterbased approaches for relating contextual features of record use to designers, management policies for supporting local EPR evolution and experimenting with solutions for building global EHR infrastructures from local EPR systems.
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