Cognitive Artifacts' Implications for Health Care Information Technology: Revealing How Practitioners Create and Share Their Understanding of Daily Work

Abstract

Our research seeks to discover the deep structure of practitioner coginitive work. The purpose is to improve the capture, use, and sharing of information related to clinical planning and management at the clinical unit level, which shapes the unit's work and leads to success or failure of patient care.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA434038

Entities

People

  • Christopher Nemth
  • Michael O’connor
  • P. A. Klock
  • Richard Cook

Organizations

  • United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anesthesia
  • Artifacts
  • Availability
  • Cognition
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • Notation
  • Organizational Structure
  • Patient Care
  • Physicians
  • Psychology
  • Resilience
  • Surgery
  • Uncertainty
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).