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Infrastructure revisited: an ethnographic case study of how health information infrastructure shapes and constrains technological innovation
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Background: Star defined infrastructure as something other things “run on”; it consists mainly of “boring things.” Building on her classic 1999 paper, and acknowledging contemporary developments in technologies, services, and systems, we developed a new theorization of health information infrastructure with five defining characteristics: (1) a material scaffolding, backgrounded when working and foregrounded upon breakdown; (2) embedded, relational, and emergent; (3) collec...
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- 10.2196/16093
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- 21
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- 12
- Article number:
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- Publication date:
- 2019-12-09
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- 2019-12-09
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1438-8871
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1439-4456
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- © Trisha Greenhalgh, Joseph Wherton, Sara Shaw, Chrysanthi Papoutsi, Shanti Vijayaraghavan, Rob Stones. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 19.12.2019. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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