Technology meets tradition: The perceived impact of the introduction of information and communication technology on ward rounds in the intensive care unit.

•ICU doctors displayed a complex engagement with technology.•Doctors embrace ICT where it reduces mundane, repetitive tasks and supports decision-making.•Doctors guarded against managerial logic embedded in ICT representing patients as a set of parameters.•Results belie simplistic characterisations of medical rejection of managerial encroachment.