De la colaboración en la producción tecnológica a las nuevas formas de producir conocimiento en informática en salud

María Belén Lopez Castro

doi:10.48160/18517072re54.144

Authors

María Belén Lopez Castro Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8504-9887

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re54.144

Keywords:

coproduction, interdisciplinary, anthropology, ethnography, health informatics

Abstract

Innovation of information systems is far from the predictions projected during the second half of the last century in the field of health. The large number of systems that were designed but not successfully implemented forced to review the forms of organization of development teams and knowledge production. Thus, health informatics emerged as an interdisciplinary field that seeks to account for the complexity and specific barriers of the sector by resorting to mixed approaches and methods from diverse sciences. Recognizing the growing attention on the role of users in the analysis of technological change, this article analyzes the effects of the relationship between development teams and users. The notion of co-production is recovered in its two meanings: as a form of association and as a category that accounts for sociotechnical reconfigurations. It will be argued that health informatics enables the co-production of technologies from the formation of interdisciplinary and intersectoral development teams. At the same time, collaborative work between users and developers helps to stabilize institutions, the identity of new professionals is built and the daily practices of the users of the systems are redefined.

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