Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 122 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-116).

This report is about double documentation in health care. In today's healthcare, there is a problem with the staff entering the same information in several different systems. It creates more work and takes precious time for an already strained business. The healthcare professionals are feeling more stressed with the increasing workload. Double documentation is today a work problem for healthcare professionals. The purpose of the report is to make a current report on how and why duplicate documentation occurs in the health care sector in the region of Gävleborg. A descriptive case study was conducted focusing on how healthcare professionals insert patient data into multiple information systems. The case study has been conducted in cooperation with Tieto, a software company in Luleå. The study resulted in several different findings. A major reason why double documentation exist depends on the lack integration between the information systems used in today´s healthcare. It is also caused by the fragmented state Swedish healthcare is currently in. Double documentation occurs mostly in cases when healthcare personnel need register patient information in. Healthcare personnel is liable to register the same information in the information system handling medical records as well as the information system used hospital department. / Nej