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UMMC’s Records System Asks if Patients Are Citizens, but Hospital Won’t Say Why

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The electronic system that manages patient information for the University of Mississippi Medical Center now includes a field for “citizenship,” but the medical center won’t say why it added the category.

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UMMC’s records system asks if patients are citizens, but hospital won’t say why

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New article: The affordances of electronic health management systems in the production of structural stigma

A new article led by DruGS team member Emily Lenton addresses the constitutive role of medical records in the production of stigma. Stemming from a research partnership developing novel strategies to address stigma related to blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections in healthcare services, this new article analyses how the very process of producing medical…

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