Inter-organizational Workflow 01 Management in Virtual Healthcare Enterprises

Virtual enterprise provides an attractive model for autonomous healthcare organizations to synergize and leverage the strengths of each others. We present in this paper the design concept and working principle of an interorganizational workflow process management system for virtual healthcare enterprises. We propose an extended WFMC process Meta model and a new concept of Partial View of Virtual Process for representation and enactment of cross-organizational processes. Using this approach, local processes of participating organizations can be integrated with other external processes quickly. The joining and disjoining a virtual enterprise by an organization is also transparent to all except the directly interacting organizations.