Reconfiguring information services in the light of the post-custodial, informational, and scientific paradigm of information science: a case study of the hospital sector

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Pestana, Olívia (Author) FLUP

Book

Title: Handbook of research on information architecture and management in modern organizations

Pages: 96-110

ISBN: 978-1-4666-8637-3

Publisher: IGI Global

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Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00M-B0D

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8637-3.ch004

Abstract (EN): In the present work, developed within the disciplinary field of Information Science (IS), and under the new post-custodial, informational and scientific paradigm of IS, which conveys a holistic view of information and has a direct effect on the organization of services, we start by analyzing the relation between health information and the IS disciplinary field. Then, we present an overview of studies on health information services and we show the major conclusions of a study of the information services in the hospitals of the Portuguese National Health Service. Taking the mentioned paradigm as the theoretical-epistemological reference of our work, and based on the findings obtained in the studies, we propose a model for the (re)organization of information services in the hospital context, considering the integrated, systemic and dynamic vision of the information.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: Chapter 4 . Release Date: August, 2015. Copyright © 2016