Conceptual modelling for technology assessment of IT systems - smart cards and health information systems

A method peculiar to sociocybernetics as a paradigm is dynamic simulation. In the case of information technological (IT) systems, which are socio-technical systems, a qualitative (conceptual, cognitive) approach is more appropriate than a quantitative one. Already intermediate results of conceptual...

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Published inKybernetes Vol. 26; no. 6/7; pp. 787 - 800
Main Authors Hornung, Bernd R, Adilova, Fatima T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London MCB UP Ltd 01.01.1997
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Subjects
Computer simulation
Cybernetics
Ecology
Health care
Hospital data processing
Information technology
Smart cards
Social sciences
System theory
Health systems research
Ecology
Modelling
Systems theory
Chip-cards
Medical informatics
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Summary:A method peculiar to sociocybernetics as a paradigm is dynamic simulation. In the case of information technological (IT) systems, which are socio-technical systems, a qualitative (conceptual, cognitive) approach is more appropriate than a quantitative one. Already intermediate results of conceptual work aimed at a computer model have been found useful. Illustrates this via three case studies from IT in health care, in which the sociocybernetic problem-functionalist conceptual (SPC) modelling technique was used. Two studies are from the "EUROCARDS Concerted Action on Extending the Use of Patient Data Cards"; the third concerns the development of health information systems in the Aral Basin. In all cases, a wide variety of information and materials was needed for modelling. To keep track of this, proposes a sociocybernetic standard variable number (SC-SVN).
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ISSN:0368-492X
1758-7883
DOI:10.1108/03684929710169979