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2004
KIM: Space, Power and Communication: The dynamics of convergent ICT in the Norwegian Health Care system
Project description
The project is an integrated research project focusing on different elements of the health care system, including general practice, elderly care, ante-natal provision, hospital based medical/surgical specialties and shared systems of communication and record-keeping.
The project is underpinned by an understanding of technology as socially constructed, and uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) to explore the agency of particular technologies in health care.
The project aims to make an original contribution to these debates by combining this approach to technology with an understanding of the health care system as a complex spatialized field of communication in which relations of power and identity are enacted, reproduced and challenged in everyday practice.
Project partners
The dynamics of convergent ICT in the Norwegian Health Care system is a consortium between NST, NORUT social research ltd., University of Tromsø, and University of Southampton.
Contact person at NST
Aud Obstfelder, Telephone: +47 952 46 791
Link to the project homepage: www.telemed.no/kim
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