Ure, Jenny, Procter, Rob, Lin, Yu-wei, Hartswood, Mark, Lloyd, Stuart, Wardlaw, Sharon, Gonzalez-Velez, Horacio and Ho, Kate (2009) The development of data infrastructures for eHealth : a socio-technical perspective. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Vol.10 (No.5). Article no. 3.

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Abstract

We explore some recurring socio-technical problems encountered in the development of infrastructure for sharing and re-using data across sites and social scales for eHealth research. We link these problems to contradictions between underlying assumptions about data as a commodity whose reuse is not compromised when it is extracted from the context in which it has been captured, and the reality of data as entangled with, and constituted through, local practice. To illustrate these problems, we draw on the experiences of a number of HealthGrid projects developing infrastructures for data sharing and reuse, and trace the strategies that have evolved to address them. These experiences problematize the “one size fits all” model initially adopted by HealthGrids, and highlight the need for design and development strategies that are able to engage with local needs and thereby ensure that the technical infrastructure is properly aligned with the human infrastructure it is supposed to support.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science
Journal or Publication Title:	Journal of the Association for Information Systems
Publisher:	Association of Information Systems
ISSN:	1536-9323
Official Date:	May 2009
Dates:	Date Event May 2009 Published
Volume:	Vol.10
Number:	No.5
Page Range:	Article no. 3
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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