Based on an actor-network study of the way in which medical work in a hospital has changed after the introduction of an electronic patient record system, the paper addresses the question of organisational consequences of ICT. It describes how the introduction of electronic patient records (EPR) has occasioned redistribution of work, of organisational attention, and of risks. By comparing these ...

In the retrospective dose assessment of individuals potentially exposed to ionizing radiation after an accident, dosimetry with inert materials can complement or be used as an alternative to biodosimetry assays. Dosimetry based on physical methods such as Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), Thermoluminescence (TL) or Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) provides measurements of absorbed d...

Automating clinical and administrative processes via an electronic patient record (EPR) gives clinicians the point-of-care tools they need to deliver better patient care. However, to improve clinical practice as a whole and then evaluate it, healthcare must go beyond basic automation and convert EPR data into aggregated, multidimensional information. Unfortunately, few EPR systems have the esta...

A fundamental problem facing publishers is how to recover costs. This is a problem for all publishers, but is of special significance to publishers of digital documents. This is because a basic characteristic of digital documents is that it is very costly to produce the first copy, but quite inexpensive to produce subsequent copies. Hence ``recovering the first copy costs'' takes on a special s...

This paper is based on an interview study with 19 resident, specialist and senior physicians. The study was initiated by a Swedish Hospital management to investigate physicians’ attitude towards their EPR (Electronic Patient Records) and give recommendations for improvement in organization, development, deployment and training. The management had experienced that the physicians were unwilling t...

Two triarylamine centers bridged through an aliphatic bridge feature unexpected charge transfer properties, bearing an important electronic coupling between them in the absence of a π linker; EPR, electrochemistry, electronic spectroscopy and first principles molecular calculations are combined to study the electronic structure of this compound.

In modern medicine the well structured patient data set, fast access to it and reporting capability become an important question. With the dynamic development of information technology (IT) such question is solved via building electronic patient record (EPR) archives. We then obtain fast access to patient data, diagnostic and treatment protocols etc. It results in more efficient, better and che...

We develop structural econometric tests of asset pricing theory for application to data from experimental financial markets. The tests differ from those used in the analysis of field data because they verify the consistency between prices and allocations, as opposed to merely testing whether only prices satisfy equilibrium restrictions. Our tests also differ from standard field tests because th...

Background: In light of plans to implement an electronic patient record (EPR), preparations for radical organisational change were recognised as being critical to success. Aim: To determine hospital staff’s experience of and attitudes toward computer use and the EPR. Method: A cross-sectional design using The Computer and EPR Attitude Survey was administered to 878 health service employees in t...