Control Patterns in a Health Care Network

In this paper we present control patterns for the analysis and design of administrative control mechanisms in a network organization. A control pattern is a description of a generic and reusable control mechanism that solves a specific control problem, to be selected on the basis of the context. To represent the context and solution, we analyze a network organization as a set of actors who transfer objects of economic value. The usefulness and adequacy of the control patterns is demonstrated by a case study of the governance and control mechanisms of the Dutch public health insurance network for exceptional medical expenses (AWBZ). Keywords. governance and control, network organizations, value modeling

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DAGSTUHL
• Authors: Vera Kartseva, Joris Hulstijn, Jaap Gordijn, Yao-Hua Tan
• Keywords: Control Mechanisms, Control Patterns, DAGSTUHL 2007, Network Organizations, Software Engineering