Paper:
System Replacement to a New HIS and Data Warehouse
Masayuki Honda and Takehiro Matsumoto
Department of Medical Informatics, Nagasaki University Hospital, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan
Large-scale hospital information systems (HIS) generally consist of (i) online transaction processing (OLTP) and (ii) online analytical processing (OLAP) systems. Electronic medical records (EMR) are a major OLTP element. The data warehouse (DWH) assumes many important OLAP roles and maintains an institution’s medical care at a high level by providing EMR with the best practice cases available. This article focuses mainly on why OLTP and OLAP are needed and what roles the DWH plays, which means that the DWH has its own utilities and supplementary merits. The background of this discussion is closely related to the HIS at Nagasaki University Hospital introduced before the DWH is discussed.
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