The Cross Enterprise Basic eReferral Workflow Definition profile builds upon the ITI Cross Enterprise Document Workflow (XDW) profile to manage the workflow related to an eReferral. 

The management of the workflow related to clinical processes is a critical complement to the use by different sectors of document sharing related IHE profiles with their different types of document and information. IHE ITI has approved in Trial Implementation the Cross-Enterprise Document Workflow profile but the work done by ITI has been on the definition of the technical infrastructure to manage a clinical workflow and not on the definition of the clinical processes, work left to the different IHE Domains.

The Cross Enterprise Basic eReferral Workflow Definition Profile defines the workflow related to the eReferral. This workflow is involved in many clinical and organizational processes for its important role in the process of digitalization. The definition of a workflow with fixed rules and tasks is needed in a cross enterprise scenario in which many participants are involved to support a referral process
