search query: @journal_id 4490 / total: 19
reference: 12 / 19
| Author: | Thompson, M.P.A. |
| Title: | Cultivating meaning: interpretive fine-tuning of a South African health information system |
| Journal: | Information and Organization
2002 : VOL. 12:3, p. 183-211 |
| Index terms: | HEALTH SERVICE INFORMATION SYSTEMS SOUTH AFRICA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper describes a piece of action research which made use of an etnographic style of interpretive enquiry to improve the alignment of a health information system to the requirements of its users. The research was motivated, first, by a perceived lack of in-depth IS research to date conducted at the level of the individual, and second, by a desire to ascertain whether an ethnographic style of IS research might profitably be used together with a heavily practical interventionist focus, both areas which are currently underserved within the IS literature. |
SCIMA