PAPERLESS AND "MEMO BOARDS" IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD

Healthcare services are one of the main domains involved in the development of wide information infrastructure, and where ambitious projects are designed with supposedly even wider scape. Decrees and regulation rules specify in a very detailed way who is supposed to write about what, who has got authority for what. This paper analyzes the way implementing Electronic Patient Records in a healthcare establishment is mobilized as an opportunity for re-assigning nurses to their legally authorized practices. The rules equipped in such a renewed way re-design nurse's information production territories. The effective information production is mostly an invisible work, that tries to cope with the failings of computerized rationality and to take into account patients' stories and the unpredictable plot concerning their cure and care trajectories. This invisible work is a collective one, involving both nurses and an all set of technical objects, which aims at producing a manageable activity.