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Technology Transfer in Medical Information Systems: The Potential for “groupware” and its Implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Robert A. Greenes
Robert A. Greenes
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
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Abstract

The practice of medicine is intrinsically a cooperative activity, involving not only a number of individuals but requiring access to a wide variety of types of data, produced and maintained by different people. Achieving seamless, integrated access to these data requires a new infrastructure of information systems that supports the construction of applications designed to incorporate and use external information resources. The term groupware may be used to connote this collective set of information resources and tools for access to them. Groupware will generate a variety of new kinds of products and services with implications for medical libraries, electronic publishing, and academic and professional collaboration.

Type
Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology, Part II
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 324 - 334
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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