Evaluation of Health Data Warehousing: Development of a Framework and Assessment of Current Practices

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dc.contributor.authorLeenaerts, Marianne
dc.contributor.supervisorKushniruk, Andre W.
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-09T21:24:01Z
dc.date.available2016-04-10T11:22:06Z
dc.date.copyright[2015]en_US
dc.date.issued2015-04-09
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Health Information Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractIf knowledge has been gathered by the practitioners’ community in the area of health data warehousing evaluation, it is mostly relying on anecdotal evidence instead of academic research. Isolated dimensions have received more attention and benefit from definitions and performance measures. However, very few cases can be found in the literature which describe how the assessment of the technology can be made, and these cases do not provide insight on how to systematize such assessment. The research in this dissertation is aimed at bridging this knowledge gap by developing an evaluation framework, and conducting an empirical study to further investigate the state of health data warehousing evaluation and the use of the technology to improve healthcare efficiency, as well as to compare these findings with the proposed framework. The empirical study involved an exploratory approach and used a qualitative method, i.e. audio-taped semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted in collaboration with the Healthcare Data Warehousing Association and involved 21 participants who were members of the Association working in a mid- to upper-level management capacity on the development and implementation of health data warehousing. All audio-taped interviews were transcribed and transcripts were coded using a qualitative analysis software package (NVivo, QSR International). Results were obtained in three areas. First, the study established that current health data warehousing systems are typically not formally evaluated. Systematic assessments relying on predetermined indicators and commonly accepted evaluation methods are very seldom performed and Critical Success Factors are not used as a reference to guide the system’s evaluation. This finding appears to explain why a literature review on the topic returns so few publications. Second, from patient throughput to productivity tracking and cost optimization, the study provided evidence of the contribution of data warehousing to the improvement of healthcare systems’ efficiency. Multiple examples were given by participants to illustrate the ways in which the technology contributed to streamlining the care process and increase healthcare efficiency in their respective organizations. Third, the study compared the proposed framework with current practices. Because formal evaluations were seldom performed, the empirical study offered limited feedback on the framework’s structure and rather informed its content and the assessment factors initially defined.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5959
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecthealth information systems evaluationen_US
dc.subjecthealth data warehousing evaluationen_US
dc.subjectbusiness intelligenceen_US
dc.subjectdata analytics evaluationen_US
dc.subjectoutcome measurementen_US
dc.subjectperformance measurementen_US
dc.subjectutilization reviewen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of Health Data Warehousing: Development of a Framework and Assessment of Current Practicesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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