Building a Diabetes Data Warehouse to Support Decision making in healthcare industry

Abstract

data warehousing did not find its way easily and readily into healthcare and medicine, not like others financial institutions, Healthcare presents unique challenges for the architect of a data warehouse and the information needs for Health data warehouse were fundamentally different and complicated. When it come to health care, data warehousing is completely stagnant and still there is a need for data warehouse in healthcare. This paper presents a proposed architecture for Health care data warehouse for Diabetes diseases which could be use to monitor Diabetes disease, measure cost of infections and to detect prescription errors in addition it can also be used by healthcare executive managers, doctors, physicians and other health professionals to support the capture, healthcare process and analysis of data, and offer the potential of radically altering the practice and delivery of healthcare and medical research.