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Implausible promises : the information revolution in the NHS

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Goffey, Andrew, Speed, Ewen and Pettinger, Lynne (2014) Implausible promises : the information revolution in the NHS. Soundings (Number 57). pp. 106-117. doi:10.3898/136266214813474589

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Abstract

Linking the UK Coalition Government's Health and Social Care Act to historical trend to 'outsource' government IT projects to privately owned tech firms and to processes of technologisation in the National Health Service, this article explores both the reality and the rhetoric of the government's purported 'information revolution' in the NHS. It takes issue with a view of technological fixes as being merely at the service of scientific, medical, or political masters, and argues for the importance of considering the role of IT in the marketisation of healthcare in the United Kingdom. Technology influences both the way information is gathered and the nature of what is measured, but these processes are rarely subject to any critical review; and once data has been produced, its reduction of complex processes to arithmetical categories can be forgotten, and decisions more easily made through market practices.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Journal or Publication Title: Soundings
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
ISSN: 1362-6620
Official Date: 1 September 2014
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1 September 2014Published
Number: Number 57
Page Range: pp. 106-117
DOI: 10.3898/136266214813474589
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published

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