How does two communities of Practice in the same Clinic use CPOE? : Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Hunam Factors Engineering in Health Informatics, Aarhus University, Skejby, Denmark, 7-8 June 2007

The study explores differences in how two practice communities use CPOE. How does tacit knowledge and different communities of practice have an influence on how the users utilize the CPOE system. The study look at the organization when the system has become a part of the daily routines.

The study shows that two local communities choose different way to use the same CPOE no matter they have exactly the same management and the physicians are the same at the two locations.