A methodological approach for modeling interdisciplinary teams

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Interdisciplinary teams are required to make complex decisions that require the integration of different processes and information sources, often across distributed settings. Healthcare is an excellent domain to study the behavior of interdisciplinary teams as the provision of modern health services involves members of multiple professional groups, with different knowledge levels and often residing in different physical locations. A good analogy to draw upon is a supply chain, which represents the set of processes that integrate suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers as a virtual organization in order to deliver products to a customer. Supply chains are facilitated by a supply chain management system (SCMS), which is an information system (IS) architecture that ensures the right information is available for the right process at the right time. There is no equivalent model that represents the integration of information sources and work processes for interdisciplinary teams.