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The health care state in the information age
Author(s) -
Freeman Richard
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9299.00327
Subject(s) - health care , corporate governance , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , public administration , work (physics) , power (physics) , health policy , public health , public policy , political science , public relations , sociology , economic growth , nursing , medicine , economics , management , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
The computerization of the medical record has important implications for the governance of health care, and the importance of health care means that changes wrought there are indicative of changes in government as a whole. This paper draws on work in public policy, medical sociology and studies of science and technology, as well as on cross–national empirical research in Britain and France. It describes the recent development of information policy in health care as an exercise in state–building, realized specifically in the governance of the health professions. The paper concludes with a discussion of what is both new and not so new in the form and extent of state power which emerges.