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Robin Williams is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of Medicine and Health Professions. Their scholarly output addresses several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Health Information Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Health Informatics.

Their work covers key topics such as Electronic Health Records Systems, Healthcare Systems and Technology, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare, and Interprofessional Education and Collaboration.

Williams has contributed to multiple publications in notable venues including:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
  • JMIR Human Factors
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • BMC Health Services Research

Prominent recent papers by Williams include:

  • Developing and Applying a Formative Evaluation Framework for Health Information Technology Implementations: Qualitative Investigation (2020) - Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding the Use of Data From Wearable Sensor Devices in Health Care: Qualitative Interview Study (2020) - Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Technological Capabilities to Assess Digital Excellence in Hospitals in High Performing Health Care Systems: International eDelphi Exercise (2020) - Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Fair and equitable AI in biomedical research and healthcare: Social science perspectives (2023) - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Learning From Experience and Finding the Right Balance in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Technologies (2023) - Journal of Medical Internet Research

Frequent collaborators in Williams' research include:

  • Kathrin Cresswell
  • Aziz Sheikh
  • Susan Hinder
  • Hajar Mozaffar
  • Stuart Anderson

Best Publications

  • The social shaping of technology

    Robin Williams;David Edge

  • Introduction: An Agenda for Infrastructure Studies

    Paul N. Edwards;Geoffrey C. Bowker;Steven J. Jackson;Robin Williams

  • Interdisciplinary integration in Europe: the case of the Fifth Framework programme

    Ann Bruce;Catherine Lyall;Joyce Tait;Robin Williams

  • Software and Organisations: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System or How SAP Conquered the World

    Robin Williams;Neil Pollock

  • Social Learning in Technological Innovation: Experimenting with Information and Communication Technologies

    Robin Williams;James Stewart;Roger Slack

  • From Artefacts to Infrastructures

    Eric Monteiro;Neil Pollock;Ole Hanseth;Robin Williams

  • Adoption and use of Web 2.0 in scholarly communications

    Rob Procter;Robin Williams;James Stewart;Meik Poschen

  • The business of expectations: How promissory organizations shape technology and innovation

    Neil Pollock;Robin Williams

  • Global software and its provenance: Generification work in the production of organizational software packages

    Neil Pollock;Robin Williams;Luciana D’Adderio

  • e-Infrastructures: How Do We Know and Understand Them? Strategic Ethnography and the Biography of Artefacts

    Neil Pollock;Robin Williams

  • The Wrong Trousers? Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User

    James Stewart;Robin Williams

  • Fitting Standard Software Packages to Non-standard Organizations: The ‘Biography’ of an Enterprise-wide System

    Neil Pollock;Robin Williams;Rob Procter

  • Research Commentary---Moving Beyond the Single Site Implementation Study: How (and Why) We Should Study the Biography of Packaged Enterprise Solutions

    Robin Williams;Neil Pollock

  • The politics of constructionism

    Irving Velody;Robin Williams

  • Dynamics of information technology implementation: A reassessment of paradigms and trajectories of development

    James Fleck;Juliet Webster;Robin Williams

  • If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0

    R Procter;R Williams;J Stewart;M Poschen

  • The Social Shaping Of Information And Communications Technologies

    Robin Williams

  • Workarounds to hospital electronic prescribing systems: a qualitative study in English hospitals

    Kathrin M Cresswell;Hajar Mozaffar;Lisa Lee;Robin Williams

  • Compressed Foresight and Narrative Bias: Pitfalls in Assessing High Technology Futures

    Robin Williams

  • Policies for Cleaner Technology: A New Agenda for Government and Industry

    Tony Clayton;Graham Spinardi;Robin Williams

  • The Social Shaping of Information Superhighways: European and American Roads to the Information Society

    Herbert Kubicek;Robin Williams;William H. Dutton

  • Policy approaches to research and development: foresight, framework and competitiveness

    Joyce Tait;Robin Williams

  • Fitting Standard Software Packages to Non-Standard Organisations: The 'Biography' of an Enterprise-Wide System

    Neil Pollock;Robin Williams;Rob Procter

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Procter
Rob Procter University of Warwick
Aziz Sheikh
Aziz Sheikh University of Oxford
Kathrin Cresswell
Kathrin Cresswell University of Edinburgh
Harry Scarbrough
Harry Scarbrough City, University of London
Mark Rouncefield
Mark Rouncefield Lancaster University
David W. Bates
David W. Bates Brigham and Women's Hospital
Henry W. W. Potts
Henry W. W. Potts University College London
Cliff B. Jones
Cliff B. Jones Newcastle University
Niels Morling
Niels Morling University of Copenhagen
Manfred Kayser
Manfred Kayser Erasmus University Rotterdam

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