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A Brief “How-to” Essay with Commentary
By Staff Reporters
According to a Standish Group survey, more than 70% of Health Information Technology applications go over budget and time and medical data warehouse applications are no exception. However, if you adopt a process, an oriented development approach and implement a rigorous project management discipline, your increase the likelihood that your medical data warehouse will be effective.
Key Steps
This is a simplified list, but reveals some of the key steps needed to build a medical data warehouse.
- Extracting data from the data sources – can be very challenging as data might reside on different systems and this forces you to prioritize what data you want and what role that plays in your patient relations management decision-making. This step involves moving data from the source (for example to your Web site) to a central location (e.g. your marketing data mart).
- Transforming the data – a key activity after data extraction. This is critical to have cleaner data and involves modification, enhancement or elimination of data based on the job instructions.
- Loading the transformed data into a dimensional database.
- Building reports for decision makers (e.g. this could be a report for your marketing management outlining the analysis of your latest patient acquisition campaign).
Assessment
The first 3 steps – Effective data extract, transform and load (ETL) processes represent the number one success factor for your medical data warehouse project and can absorb up to 70 percent of the time spent on a typical warehousing project.
Conclusion
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