Shams K, Farishta M
Department of Health Information Management, College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
Top Health Inf Manage. 2001 Feb;21(3):24-32.
With rapid changes taking place in the practice and delivery of health care, decision support systems have assumed an increasingly important role. More and more health care institutions are deploying data warehouse applications as decision support tools for strategic decision making. By making the right information available at the right time to the right decision makers in the right manner, data warehouses empower employees to become knowledge workers with the ability to make the right decisions and solve problems, creating strategic leverage for the organization. Health care management must plan and implement data warehousing strategy using a best practice approach. Through the power of data warehousing, health care management can negotiate bettermanaged care contracts based on the ability to provide accurate data on case mix and resource utilization. Management can also save millions of dollars through the implementation of clinical pathways in better resource utilization and changing physician behavior to best practices based on evidence-based medicine.
随着医疗保健实践和服务的快速变化，决策支持系统发挥着越来越重要的作用。越来越多的医疗机构正在部署数据仓库应用程序，作为战略决策的决策支持工具。通过以正确的方式在正确的时间向正确的决策者提供正确的信息，数据仓库使员工能够成为知识型工作者，具备做出正确决策和解决问题的能力，为组织创造战略优势。医疗保健管理必须采用最佳实践方法来规划和实施数据仓库战略。借助数据仓库的力量，医疗保健管理可以根据提供病例组合和资源利用准确数据的能力，协商更好的管理式医疗合同。管理层还可以通过实施临床路径，在更好地利用资源以及将医生行为转变为基于循证医学的最佳实践方面节省数百万美元。
