Techno-anthropology in health informatics : methodologies for improving human-technology relations / edited by Lars Botin, Pernille Bertelsen, and Christian Nøhr.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 27, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title Page -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Part 1. Ethnographic and Anthropological Perspectives on Methodology -- Challenges in Improving Health Care by Use of Health Informatics Technology -- Using Rapid Ethnography to Support the Design and Implementation of Health Information Technologies -- Uncovering Everyday Rhythms and Patterns: Food Tracking and New Forms of Visibility and Temporality in Health Care -- The British National Formulary: Checking, Medicines and Clinicians -- Patient Centred Systems: Techno-Anthropological Reflections on the Challenges of `Meaningfully Engaging' Patients Within Health Informatics Research -- Tracking Porters: Learning the Craft of Techno-Anthropology -- Part 2. Ethical and Sociotechnical Approaches -- Techno-Anthropological Ethics and Health Information Systems Technologies -- Technology in Intersecting Figured Worlds -- Persons and Their Personal Health Records: Augmented Embodiment Meets the Quasi-Doctor -- A Model of Tradeoffs for Understanding Health Information Technology Implementation -- Use of Techno-Anthropologic Approaches in Studying Technology-Induced Errors -- Part 3. Users, Participation and Human Factors -- Technology and the Ecology of Chronic Illness in Everyday Life -- Monitoring Technology Meets Care Work: Challenges of Monitoring Wet-Beds in a Nursing Home -- Techno-Anthropological Sensibilities in Health Informatics: Opportunities and Challenges -- Techno-Anthropologists as Change Agents: A Case in Health Informatics -- The Smart Floor: How a Public-Private Partnership Co-Developed a Heterogeneous Healthcare Technology System -- Video Analysis and Remote Digital Ethnography: Approaches to Understanding User Perspectives and Processes Involving Healthcare Information Technology -- Clinical Simulation: For What and How Can It Be Used in Design and Evaluation of Health IT.

Application of Human Factors Methods to Design Healthcare Work Systems: Instance of the prevention of Adverse Drug Events -- Mapping Health Outcome and Costs when Coordinating Local Information System Redesign -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

Techno-Anthropology is an emerging interdisciplinary research field focusing on human/technology interactions and relations, and how these can be understood and facilitated in context. Techno-Anthropology also considers how technological innovation, development and implementation can be made in an appropriate and pragmatic way in relation to understanding work practices. Techno-Anthropology has much to offer the health informatics and eHealth fields, and this book presents the work of experienced international researchers who share here how they have applied Techno-Anthropology methodologies to their research. The book is divided into three sections: ethnographic and anthropological perspectives on methodology; ethical and sociotechnical approaches; and users, participation and human factors. Topics covered include: learning the craft of Techno-Anthropology; anthropological approaches in studying technology induced errors; technology and the ecology of chronic illness in everyday life; Techno-Anthropologists as agents of change; and using rapid ethnography to support the design and implementation of health information technologies, as well as many more. Of interest to researchers and practitioners within the health informatics field as well as students and scholars, the book will inspire researchers and practitioners to examine health informatics from a new perspective.

English.

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