The state of health information technology standards: The conflation of the technical and the political in the development of a pan-Canadian electronic health record system.

摘要

The convergence of political and technical challenges is demonstrated in a case study on a collaborative initiative to develop a pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. It is argued that the juxtaposition of different domains, procedures, knowledge bases, and entities involved in establishing a pan-Canadian EHR has resulted in the development of a new, hybrid form of collaboration.