With the introduction of resource management, doctors and nurses are now directly involved in the management of hospitals as clinical directors and ward managers. This work focuses on the roles played by Information Technology in this process and its implications for the health service.
The social "shaping" of healthcare computing; computers, management
strategies and the state; computer specialists, "hybrids" and information
management; medical computing and professional autonomy; nurses and computers
- technical rationality and emotional labour; hospitals, IT and new
organizational forms; profession, IT and hospital management.
