Validation results of a self-maintained cardiology collaborative tool

Excellence in care optimisation in modern cardiology is a twofold issue that involves both the collaboration of numerous communities that benefit from collaborative work spaces as well as life-long education of professionals. Progressive specialisation of medical professionals is one of the factors that most account for this lack of dissemination giving way to the creation of clustered and specialised knowledge domains, only accessible to the elite of specialists and professional networks created around them. Besides, communication and collaboration among professionals proves to be quite scarce and hard outside restricted circles. This paper presents the results and lessons learnt from Health Memory (HM), a self-maintained multidisciplinary system that focuses on cardiology. It aims at enabling healthcare professionals (GPs, cardiologists, other, personnel, etc.), to address the management of knowledge and the enhancement of communication mechanisms