Although working in teams is common for most health care practitioners today, the Romanow Report (2002) directed our collective attention towards the need for effective interprofessional collaboration in primary health care settings. Subsequently, federal policy and funding agencies like CANARIE Inc. and the Office of Learning Technologies have focused efforts on promoting interprofessional practice using new technologies. Ideally, effective interprofessional collaboration leads to improvements in patient careyet how do organizations assess where they are and need to go with respect to optimizing team-work and collaborative practice to improve patient care? This was exactly the design challenge taken up by Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) in a recent collaborative pilot project with the Institute of Knowledge Innovation and Technology (IKIT) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. An interprofessional Task Force was struck to develop a new philosophy of patient care for HHS. The main challenge was to shift team-work from exclusive reliance on face-to-face meetings and use of one-way communications technologies (e.g., voice-mail and e-mail) towards asynchronous collaboration in a communal database technology called Knowledge Forum. Over the past eighteen months results of the project reveal that participation in Knowledge Forum successfully supported interprofessional team-work and collaboration; democratized the knowledge creation process; reduced turn around times for interprofessional team-work; and, provided an ideal environment for sharing multiple sources of evidence, including patient survey data, to support the knowledge creation process. New technologies that support interprofessional teams to produce public knowledge of value to the local and extended community such as the new philosophy of patient centred care that emerged in this projectare powerful mediums for hospital based team work.