Annotations for the Collaboration of the Health Professionals

Although Health Professionals HPs are aware of the interest of the Electronic Medical Record EMR, most of them still use a Paper Medical Record PMR. In the French DocPatient project, we work on documentary functionalities to improve the use of the EMR. We made the assumption that a best integration of the way they use these paper medical documents in the EMR design will improve its utility, its use and its acceptance. We propose in this paper to add a functionality of annotations in the EMR to reinforce collaboration, coordination and awareness.