Health Technology Development and Use: From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts (Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations)

Health Technology Development and Use: From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts (Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations)
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354
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0415806461
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Бизнес и инвестиции. Книги американских издательств 2010 г.

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How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses, how these are developed into products and embedded in health care practices, and how the form and impact of these technologies then evolves through several rounds of design and deployment across different types of organizations. Examining these processes through three case studies of health care innovations, these studies reveal a blind spot in extant research on development-use relations. The majority of studies have examined shorter‘episodes’: moments within particular design projects, implementation processes, usability evaluations, and human-machine interactions. Studies with longer time-frames have resorted to a relatively coarse ‘grain-size’ of analysis and hence lost sight of how...

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