Information Infrastructures in healthcare and emergent data work occupations: The case of medical scribes and CDIS

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dc.contributor.authorBossen, Claus
dc.contributor.authorChen, Yunan
dc.contributor.authorPine, Kathleen H.
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-28T02:40:54Z
dc.date.available2019-05-28T02:40:54Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe development of information infrastructures in healthcare is often described in abstract terms as datafication, the conversion of qualitative aspects of life into quantified data, which makes the people and actual work involved invisible. To make visible the actors and the efforts implied in the term ‘datafication’, in this paper, we describe two emergent data work occupations in healthcare: Medical scribes and clinical documentation improvement specialists (CDIS). These cases provide a starting point for understanding the impacts of digitization of healthcare and the emergence of new kinds of work and new occupations that health organizations adapted to accommodate such impacts. Making data work visible is important in order for these occupations to be acknowledged. If data work remains invisible, healthcare organizations and researchers alike will have an incomplete understanding of how data is actually produced in practice, hindering the organizational design, human resources, and organizational learning that are essential for healthcare organizations to become competent producers and users of data.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18420/ihc2019_014
dc.identifier.pissn2510-2591
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEuropean Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
dc.relation.ispartofInfrahealth 2019 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare 2019
dc.relation.ispartofseriesReports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies: vol. 3, no. 4
dc.titleInformation Infrastructures in healthcare and emergent data work occupations: The case of medical scribes and CDISen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.conference.date30-31 May 2019
gi.conference.locationVienna, Austria

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