ABSTRACT

This chapter emphasise: The situated practices of dealing with medications after the introduction of an electronic medication system. The National Board of Health, politicians, computer companies, several counties, singular hospitals and wards, appear to have overlapping, but different ideas about what is required for something to be an electronic patient record (EPR). If we take Haraway's insight to our own case, it becomes possible to look at the electronic patient record as another political figuration in a Danish context, stretched out in material-semiotic systems of reality. She attempts to dissolve a number of strong tensions between philosophical anthropology and contemporary, sociotechnical reality in which not everything is what it seems to be. By focusing on the ward as a dynamic and situated, material-semiotic space of multiple practices we attempt to demonstrate how the successful incorporation of the electronic medication module (EMM) can be seen as an effect of numerous work processes entailing many reconfigurations of humans, things, and meanings.