How digital health documentation transforms professional practices in primary healthcare in Denmark: A WPR document analysis.

ABSTRACT: Historically, recordkeeping has been an essential task for health professionals. Today, this mandatory task increasingly takes place as digital documentation. This study critically examines problem constructions in practical documents on digital documentation strategies in Danish municipal healthcare and how these problem constructions imply particular solutions. A document analysis based on the approach presented in Bacchi's "What's the problem represented to be?" was applied. Forty practical documents in the form of guidelines, strategies, and quality control documents were included. The analysis uncovered three problem representations: lack of coherence between health services in a complex healthcare system, lack of assessable data for management and political prioritization, and ineffi

SUBMITTER: Duval Jensen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078429 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature