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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all those who contributed to this book: the named coauthors,
who worked hard to prepare this volume, and Els Goorman, Paul
Harterink and Saskia Plass, with whom I cooperated some years ago and who
contributed to some of the earlier work from which parts of this book derived.
Further I would like to thank Francesca Poynter and Rachel Crookes, for starting
up this project and for their never ending enthusiasm and faith in this
undertaking. Finally, thanks to all the other members of the Rotterdam Research
Group on Information Technology in Health care practice and Management
(RITHM), and to Vasilie Getrouw and Marlies Hellendoorn for their support in
organizing and handling the work that was part and parcel of preparing this
book.
Chapters 2 to 4 from this book have emerged from the Dutch report De Nacht
Schreef Rood: Informatisering van Zorgpraktijken (Berg, M., E.Goorman,
P.Harterink, and S.Plass, 1998, Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut). Parts of the
following articles were drawn upon in Chapter 2 to 5: Accumulating and
Coordinating: Occasions for Information Technologies in Medical Work, Berg,
M. 1999, Computer Supported Cooperative Work 8:373–401; Search for
Synergy: Interrelating Medical Work and Patient Care Information Systems,
Berg, M., 2003, Methods of Information in Medicine, in press; The Contextual
Nature of Medical Information, Berg, M., and E.Goorman, 1999, International
Journal of Medical Informatics 56:51–60; Embodying the Patient: Records and
Bodies in Early 20th Century US Medical Practice, Berg, M., and P.Harterink,
2003, Body and Society, in press. Chapter 6 is based upon material presented in a
trio of papers, which set out a broad framework for understanding how humans
interact with each other, through the use of technology: When Conversation is
Better than Computation, Coiera, E. 2000, Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association 7:277–86; Mediated Agent Interaction, E.Coiera, 2001,
in S.Qualglini, P.Barahona and S.Adreassen (Eds.), AIME 2001—Proceedings of
the 8th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe, Springer
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence no. 2101, and Mediated Interaction
Design, Coiera, E. in press, International Journal of Medical Informatics.
Chapter 9, finally, is based upon Implementing Information Systems in Health