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ArticleBioSocieties2022

When data drive health: an archaeology of medical records technology.

Colin Koopman, Patrick Jones, Valérie Simon, Paul Showler, Mary McLevey, Critical Genealogies Collaboratory

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Article in BioSocieties, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Colin KoopmanUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0354-7522
Patrick JonesUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Valérie SimonUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Paul ShowlerUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Mary McLeveyUniversity of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Critical Genealogies Collaboratory

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicine is often thought of as a science of the body, but it is also a science of data. In some contexts, it can even be asserted that data drive health. This article focuses on a key piece of data technology central to contemporary practices of medicine: the medical record. By situating the medical record in the perspective of its history, we inquire into how the kinds of data that are kept at sites of clinical encounter often depend on informational requirements that originate well outside of the clinic, in particular in health insurance records systems. Although this dependency of today's electronic medical records on billing requirements is widely lamented by clinical providers, its history remains little studied. Following the archaeology of medicine developed by Michel Foucault in

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Data systemsFormatsInformation technologyMedia archaeologyMedical recordsPhilosophical archaeology

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PMID34512794
PMCPMC8419372

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