Rune Pedersen

Rune Pedersen is a researcher affiliated with the Faculty of Health Sciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 2013 focusing on clinical nursing terminology and information infrastructure within healthcare systems.

His research interests center around:

• Clinical Nursing Terminology
• Information Infrastructure development
• Socio-technical approaches to healthcare systems
• Process-oriented Electronic Patient Record systems
• Standards in nursing practice

Pedersen's scholarly work primarily examines the intersection between clinical practice needs and information technology systems in healthcare settings. His research employs interpretive case study methodology to understand how nursing standards can inform the development of more effective healthcare information systems. His work has implications for improving both clinical workflow integration and the secondary use of health information.

His primary scholarly contribution is his 2013 doctoral dissertation which represents a significant contribution to understanding how clinical nursing terminology functions as information infrastructure in healthcare settings.