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Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine

Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine

Nevena Stolba, Tho Manh Nguyen, A Min Tjoa
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 34
ISBN13: 9781605667485|ISBN10: 160566748X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924522|EISBN13: 9781605667492
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-748-5.ch008
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Stolba, Nevena, et al. "Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine." Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications, edited by Tho Manh Nguyen, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 174-207. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-748-5.ch008

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Stolba, N., Nguyen, T. M., & Tjoa, A. M. (2010). Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine. In T. Nguyen (Ed.), Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications (pp. 174-207). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-748-5.ch008

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Stolba, Nevena, Tho Manh Nguyen, and A Min Tjoa. "Data Warehouse Facilitating Evidence-Based Medicine." In Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development: Innovative Methods and Applications, edited by Tho Manh Nguyen, 174-207. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-748-5.ch008

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Abstract

In the past, much effort of healthcare decision support systems were focused on the data acquisition and storage, in order to allow the use of this data at some later point in time. Medical data was used in static manner, for analytical purposes, in order to verify the undertaken decisions. Due to the immense volumes of medical data, the architecture of the future healthcare decision support systems focus more on interoperability than on integration. With the raising need for the creation of unified knowledge base, the federated approach to distributed data warehouses (DWH) is getting increasing attention. The exploitation of evidence-based guidelines becomes a priority concern, as the awareness of the importance of knowledge management rises. Consequently, interoperability between medical information systems is becoming a necessity in modern health care. Under strong security measures, health care organizations are striking to unite and share their (partly very high sensitive) data assets in order to achieve a wider knowledge base and to provide a matured decision support service for the decision makers. Ontological integration of the very complex and heterogeneous medical data structures is a challenging task. The authors’ objective is to point out the advantages of the deployment of a federated data warehouse approach for the integration of the wide range of different medical data sources and for distribution of evidence-based clinical knowledge, to support clinical decision makers, primarily clinicians at the point of care.

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