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Infrastructure revisited: an ethnographic case study of how health information infrastructure shapes and constrains technological innovation

Abstract:

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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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.2196/16093

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2369-8088
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-7701-4783
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0002-7014-4793
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Medical Sciences Division
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-1189-7100
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Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-0614-9933
Publisher:
Journal of Medical Internet Research Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal of Medical Internet Research Journal website
Volume:
21
Issue:
12
Article number:
e16093
Publication date:
2019-12-09
Acceptance date:
2019-12-09
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EISSN:
1438-8871
ISSN:
1439-4456
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1060302
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2020-01-02

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