title: Re-formation of healthcare information: an opportunity for health IT.
abstract: With the increasing adoption of healthcare IT, there is a need to reinterpret what is considered to be medical records. This study applies ethnographically-based methods to investigate medical information generation and use in an inpatient unit at an academic medical center. The findings will help inform the healthcare communities how healthcare IT can provide an opportunity to re-form healthcare information to better share information within and cross institutions, as well as with patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaomu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ackerman
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zheng
mesh_terms: D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008824:Michigan; D009626:Terminology as Topic