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Question
An information asset is a body of information defined and managed as a standalone, single unit that can be shared and exploited to the organization's benefit. It is an asset because it has financial value to the organization. Enterprise-wide information assets common to large healthcare organizations include billing systems, EHR/EMR, master patient index, clinical automation systems, patient portals, personal health records, telemedicine, health information exchange (HIE), clinical applications (lab, pharmacy), etc.
The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is a repository of high-value data from different information assets and corporate systems or applications. The data contained in an EDW can be integrated for many strategic uses across the enterprise. For example, strategic objectives might include activities and initiatives to improve quality, safety, cost, productivity, etc.
1. List the benefits of an EDW to a healthcare organization.
2. Develop a strategic objective and explain how it could be facilitated using a data warehouse.
3. Select two information assets from the list above. Then, through a data warehouse, analyze and demonstrate how data from those two assets could accomplish the identified strategic objective.