Rose-Coloured Glasses
The Discourse on Information Technology in the Romanow Report
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14784151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ellen Balka (0000-0003-2094-7907, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Kjetil Rodje (Simon Fraser University), Corlann Gee Bush (Simon Fraser University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2007-11-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0705-3657 • E-ISSN: 1499-6642 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22230/cjc.2007v32n3a1866 |
| OpenAlex | W1537104866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
Here discourse about information technology in Canada’s health sector is examined. After an overview of the emergence of the Canadian Health Information Infrastructure, discourse within the Romanow Report is discussed in relation to three key themes: standardization, empowerment, and time/space compression. While an instrumental view of technology in the health care sector is the predominant discourse articulated in the report, we argue that, by emphasizing technology assessment, the Romanow Report makes room for a more nuanced analysis of technology implementations than is common to government reports. We conclude by suggesting how investigations of information and communication technology in the health sector, such as this, may offer opportunities to raise critical questions about technology and health policy from a communications perspective. Résumé : Dans cet article, nous effectuons une analyse de discours sur les technologies de l’information dans le secteur de la santé au Canada. Suivant un survol de l’infrastructure de la technologie de l’information sur la santé du Canada, nous passons en revue le discours du rapport Romanow relatif à trois thèmes clés : la standardisation, l’autonomisation et la compression espace-temps. Bien qu’une perspective instrumentale sur la technologie dans le système de soins soit le discours prédominant articulé dans ce rapport, nous soutenons que le rapport Romanow, en mettant l’accent sur la prospective, effectue une analyse plus nuancée des mises en oeuvre technologiques que celles qu’on lit ordinairement dans des rapports gouvernementaux. Nous concluons cet article en proposant que des études comme celle-ci, qui portent sur la technologie de ’information et de la communication dans le secteur de la santé, ont le potentiel, tout en privilégiant une perspective communicationnelle, de soulever des questions critiques sur les politiques en matière de technologie et de santé
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |