In Russia, the process of clustering institutions at the regional level is evolved. The analysis of scientific publications revealed only several examples of efficiently functioning medical clusters. As a rule, the publications present problems or projects and perspectives of development of medical clusters. At that, no information is available concerning organizational mechanisms integration of institutions. Purpose of the study is to evaluate the results of partnership between institutions of science and practice in resolving strategic health problems related to diseases of blood circulatory system. Materials and methods. The study applied such methods as monographic approach, data derivation, statistical technique, logical and system analysis. Results. The partnership between scientific and educational institutions and practical health care organizations was analyzed on the example of the system of medical care of circulatory system diseases organized in the Kemerovo region. The effective functioning of such a partnership is based on seven integration principles. Thus, the number of treated patients increased by 7.1% from 2011 to 2018. At the same time, the number of beds decreased by 9.2%. As a result, bed turnover increased by 18.1% over this period. The work of X-ray surgery service almost doubled the rate of percutaneous coronary interventions in case of acute coronary syndrome (from 22.0% in 2011 to 42.7% in 2018). The main organizational basics of successful cooperation of institutions are succession and interdependency in work of physians and departments, joint environments of quality management, knowledge management and personnel training, shared management of research and medical activity, common production and information environment, corporate culture and traditions.
Keywords: knowledge management; medical cluster; partnership of institutions; quality management system.