Studying technology use as social practice: the untapped potential of ethnography

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Information and communications technologies (ICTs) in healthcare are often introduced with expectations of higher-quality, more efficient, and safer care. Many fail to meet these expectations. We argue here that the well-documented failures of ICTs in healthcare...

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Main Authors: Swinglehurst Deborah, Greenhalgh Trisha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-04-01
Series:BMC Medicine
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/45

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