Self-maintained collaborative and multidisciplinary system for knowledge management in cardiology

Qualiry of care optimization in modern cardiology involves the collaboration of a great diversity of professionals that could benefit from the existence of collaborative work spaces. This paper presents Health Memory, a selfmaintained collaborative and multidisciplinary system, specialized irt cardiology, which enables difJerent groups of healthcare professionals (e.g. general practitioners, cardiologists, personnel from medical companies, etc.), to share and improve knowledge management and communication. The system is based on a web portal through which professionals can have access to different services whose main functionalio provided is the possibility of sending and searching far shared knowledge contributions. In this way, the system allows the creation of a virtual community in the cardiology domain which enables professionals to share and increase knowledge management.