The University of Pennsylvania Health System, a.k.a. Penn Medicine, recently detailed the phased development of clinical dashboards in a Computerworld.com article. Utilizing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, The University of Pennsylvania Health System met their objective of creating a single data warehouse with all patient, administrative, financial, and supply chain data mapped to a standardized data model.

Brian Wells, Chief Technology Officer for Information Services at the University of Pennsylvania Health System, provides detail of each phase of the project within the Computerworld.com article. The initial phase involved requirements gathering from the users which included providing education to the targeted user base on the powerful capabilities of the business intelligence tool. Subsequent phases cover design and testing of the many layers within the application. Final roll-out includes training and support systems to maximize user adoption.

"The clinical dashboards enable Penn Medicine to provide relevant, up-to-the-minute information to clinicians in a format that enables them to improve the quality of patient care," says Wells.

BI Consulting Group assisted on the Penn Data Store Project, providing guidance on multi-user development (MUD), migration processes, ETL, and best practices for modeling the repository and dashboards.

The complete article is available at: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=338610

The article is also downloadable in a PDF format at the following link:
Download >> Penn Medicine Eight Steps to Developing Health Care Dashboards

About Penn Medicine

PENN Medicine is a $2.2 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and high-quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System (created in 1993 as the nation's first integrated academic health system). Penn's School of Medicine is ranked #2 in the nation for receipt of NIH research funds; and ranked #4 in the nation in U.S. News & World Report's most recent ranking of top research-oriented medical schools. Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.

Penn Health System consists of four hospitals (including its flagship Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, consistently rated one of the nation's "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report), a faculty practice plan, a primary-care provider network, three multispecialty satellite facilities, and home health care and hospice.


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5/26/2009
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