Henriette Lauvhaug Nybakke
Phd Candidate at The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)
Nybakke is employed at the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, where she also work on other projects, primarily focusing on electronic medicines management. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, digital inequality within healthcare and the structures of (digital) health systems. She completed her master's degree in sociology at UiT in 2020 and worked at the Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research for nearly a year before embarking on her PhD journey.
Tell us about your project!
In today's healthcare sector, various digital and analog systems are used for medical management. An issue arises when patients require multiple healthcare services and transition between them, necessitating collaboration and communication for medication list management. This PhD project aims to explore the network of the healthcare system in relation to patients' medication lists, using Actor-Network Theory as the main framework. By treating human and non-human actors as equals, professions, departments, paper, pens, digital tools, and systems are all considered actors. Ethnographic fieldwork, including observations and interviews, will be conducted at different healthcare sites in Stavanger and Narvik, such as hospitals, general practitioners' offices, home services, and nursing homes.
“This PhD project aims to explore the network of the healthcare system in relation to patients' medication lists, using Actor-Network Theory as the main framework.”
— Nybakke on her research project “Tracing Actor Networks in Medication List Communication within the Norwegian Healthcare sector: An Ethnographic Study”