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. 2012:2012:189-98.
Epub 2012 Nov 3.

Clinical use of an enterprise data warehouse

R Scott Evans  1 , James F Lloyd, Lee A Pierce
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Clinical use of an enterprise data warehouse

R Scott Evans et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2012.

Abstract

The enormous amount of data being collected by electronic medical records (EMR) has found additional value when integrated and stored in data warehouses. The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) allows all data from an organization with numerous inpatient and outpatient facilities to be integrated and analyzed. We have found the EDW at Intermountain Healthcare to not only be an essential tool for management and strategic decision making, but also for patient specific clinical decision support. This paper presents the structure and two case studies of a framework that has provided us the ability to create a number of decision support applications that are dependent on the integration of previous enterprise-wide data in addition to a patient's current information in the EMR.

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Figure 1.
Conceptual architecture of the EDW at Intermountain Healthcare.
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Figure 2.
Framework for decision support applications dependent on previous enterprise-wide in addition to current patient information.
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Figure 3.
Example of the daily secure MRSA/VRE email alerts sent to the infection preventionists at all 22 Intermountain hospitals. Pager alerts do not include the patient’s name.
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Figure 4.
Example of the daily secure VTE high risk email alerts sent to pharmacists at all 22 Intermountain hospitals. Pager alerts do not contain patient names.
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