Scaffolding Health Information Infrastructure’s Generativity by Scaffolded Gateways: The Case of Vietnam

• Nguyen, Thanh Ngoc ^[1] ; Braa, Jorn
  1. [1] University of Oslo

     University of Oslo

     Noruega

     
• Localización: EJISDC: The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, ISSN-e 1681-4835, Nº. 75, 2016
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Standards and gateways are important components that play critical roles in information infrastructure (e-infrastructure) evolution. Surprisingly, little research has been conducted into this area. To fill that gap, we undertook a longitudinal action research study in the health care sector in Vietnam in the period between 2012 and 2015. The empirical work involved designing or cultivating, reconfiguring, (re)assembling multiple socio-technical components and transforming them into a larger health information infrastructure. To understand how gateways performed in our cases, we employed a concept namely “scaffolded gateways”, which was basically a hybrid between scaffoldings and gateways. We defined it as having three properties: interconnecting, supportive, and evanescent.