Implementing Electronic Health Records – Activities, Actors, AI

Abstract

Electronic health records (EHRs) support healthcare professionals in their treatment of patients. To fulfil this function, EHRs include increasing numbers of artificial intelligence (AI) components to analyze images, recommend actions, and issue warnings. Because of their numerous technical features, EHRs affect many groups of actors and require their competent performance of a variety of activities. As a result, the implementation of EHRs in hospitals and other healthcare institutions is a major undertaking, which has received sustained attention in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and related research communities. This workshop aims to provide a forum for participants to get updated on current CSCW studies of EHR implementations and create connections with a select group of CSCW researchers who study such implementations. Within the overall theme of implementing EHRs, the workshop specifically focuses on the activities, actors, and AI involved in implementing and using EHRs. The key activities at the workshop will be presentation of the participants’ position papers and thematic group discussion.