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Data-work and friction: Investigating the practices of repurposing healthcare data. / Bonde, Morten ; Bossen, Claus; Danholt, Peter.
In: Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3, 2019, p. 558-566.Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Data-work and friction: Investigating the practices of repurposing healthcare data
AU - Bonde, Morten
AU - Bossen, Claus
AU - Danholt, Peter
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The focus on digital data for improved management and quality of healthcare is paramount. In particular, the vast volumes of accumulated data in clinical systems have created high hopes for repurposing data to serve secondary purposes beyond the practices of direct clinical care, such as research, improvement and efficiency. This article contributes with an understanding of the pivotal, but often unnoticed “data-work” involved in such efforts. The article is based on a regional project in Danish healthcare, in which nine hospital departments were given the task of developing new indicators for quality to substitute the previous accountability regime based on Diagnosis-Related Groups. Using the concept of “friction,” we analyze the challenges of turning clinical ideas into data-supported indicators and of collecting data from existing repositories. Especially, we turn attention to the interaction between clinicians and it-personnel to focus on the interdisciplinary and collaborative aspects of this work.
AB - The focus on digital data for improved management and quality of healthcare is paramount. In particular, the vast volumes of accumulated data in clinical systems have created high hopes for repurposing data to serve secondary purposes beyond the practices of direct clinical care, such as research, improvement and efficiency. This article contributes with an understanding of the pivotal, but often unnoticed “data-work” involved in such efforts. The article is based on a regional project in Danish healthcare, in which nine hospital departments were given the task of developing new indicators for quality to substitute the previous accountability regime based on Diagnosis-Related Groups. Using the concept of “friction,” we analyze the challenges of turning clinical ideas into data-supported indicators and of collecting data from existing repositories. Especially, we turn attention to the interaction between clinicians and it-personnel to focus on the interdisciplinary and collaborative aspects of this work.
KW - data-driven healthcare
KW - data-work
KW - ethnography
KW - healthcare infrastructures
KW - indicators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068234742&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1460458219856462
DO - 10.1177/1460458219856462
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 31230506
VL - 25
SP - 558
EP - 566
JO - Health Informatics Journal
JF - Health Informatics Journal
SN - 1460-4582
IS - 3
ER -