Knowledge Sharing and Decision Support System

Abstract

In a scenario where Healthcare organizations tend to rapid decentralization, with multiple actors involved in the care delivery processes, the importance for professionals to collaborate, access and share data and knowledge becomes more and more stringent. New technologies have improved the ability of electronically storing, transferring and sharing medical data; at the same time, they also create serious questions about who has access to this information and how it is protected. The aim of Doc@Hand is to support healthcare professionals in this changing environment, by providing a set of IT tools that help reducing the time and associated costs to collect the information and knowledge required, and, more crucially, [1] in making the best use of it for a more informed decision making (diagnoses, therapies, protocols).