【演講活動】PUBLIC LECTURE
An Ethnographic Perspective on Electronic Health Records

SPEAKER: Dr. Janelle Taylor (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada)
TIME: Tuesday, November 3, 2026. 15:00-17:00
VENUE: International Conference Hall (16F, Rear Building, Comprehensive Medical Building, Taipei Medical University)
Organizer: Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei Medical University
Co-organizer: Medical Anthropology Research Group, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

What insights can electronic health records yield, when approached with an ethnographic curiosity about social life? This talk will share findings from and reflections on research that I have carried out examining data from the electronic health records of older adult participants in a longitudinal study of incident dementia. One project primarily involved reading clinical chart notes for what they could reveal about family and social relations. The other project involved reading secure messages sent to the healthcare delivery system by older adults with dementia, for what they could tell us about their needs, circumstances, and struggles. The talk will address some of the challenges as well as the potential, of approaching electronic health records as a kind of “fieldsite.”
We cordially invite faculty, students, and anyone interested in medical anthropology, medical humanities, dementia studies, EHR, care research, and ethnographic methods to attend.