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The research was focused exclusively on processes involving two different organizations and any internal processes were altogether excluded from it.<\/jats:p><jats:p>ResultsThe study allowed the identification of about 50 recurrent interaction processes, which were classified into four different varieties in accordance with the nature of the information flow: administrative, clinical, identificational and statistical. In addition, these processes were divided in accordance with the way how that integration is achieved, from completely automated to email or telephone-based.<\/jats:p><jats:p>ConclusionsFunds\/Money related processes are technologically more rigid and standardized, whereas auditing and inspection ones are less supported by automatic systems. There emerged an interesting level of sharing and integration in clinical processes, although the integration is mostly made at the interface level. The authors identified 5 particularly relevant and dominant actors (2 classes of individuals and 3 institutions) with which there is a need for coordination and cooperation. The authors consider that, in future works, an effort should be made to provide the various institutions with guidelines\/interfaces and prompt such institutions to elaborate upon these.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Citation: Pinto E, Brito AC, Cruz-Correia RJ. 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