Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records - An Emergency Room Ethnography (Hardcover)

Unintended Consequences of Electronic Medical Records: An Emergency Room Ethnography argues that, while electronic medical records (EMRs) were supposed to improve health care delivery, EMRs' unintended consequences have affected emergency medicine providers and patients in alarming ways. Higher health care costs, decreased physician productivity, increased provider burnout, lower levels of patient satisfaction, and more medical mistakes are just a few of the unintended consequences Barbara Cook Overton observes while studying one emergency room's EMR adoption. With data collected over six years, Cook Overton demonstrates how EMRs harm health care organizations and thrust providers into the midst of incompatible rule systems without appropriate strategies for coping with these challenges, thus robbing them of agency. Using structuration theory and its derivatives to frame her analysis, Cook Overton explores ways providers communicatively and performatively receive and manage EMRs in emergency rooms. Scholars of communication and medicine will find this book particularly useful.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	Barbara Cook Overton
Dimensions:	231 x 161 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-6745-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > First aid & paramedical services Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-6745-2
Barcode:	9781498567459

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!