title: [Information, knowledge and healthcare practice: professionals participation as the key element of the gear].
abstract: This article analyzes the role of ICT within the complicated gear between information, knowledge and healthcare practices, which particular focus on two specific cases: the digitalization process of the healthcare system and the application of knowledge into the healthcare practices. In both cases, international and local experiences suggest, and sometimes demonstrate the importance of the participation, capacity-building and empowerment of healthcare practitioners for the generation, transfer and use of information and knowledge empowered by the digital tools which should bring into the system better performance, more efficacy, efficiency, equity, equality, security, quality.
authors.affiliation: Agència d'Avaluació de Tecnologies i Recerca Mèdiques, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, España. padam@aatrm.catsalut.net
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Adam
authors.forename: Gaietà
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Permanyer-Miralda
authors.forename: Oriol
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Solà-Morales
authors.forename: Jaume
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Canela-Soler
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006282:Health Personnel; D007256:Information Systems; D019359:Knowledge