Development of specific disease data warehouse for developing content from general guide for hypertension screening, referral and follow up

  • Authors:

  • Teh Ying Wah;Ng Hooi Peng;Ching Sue Hok

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Department of Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;Department of Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • ACS'07 Proceedings of the 7th Conference on 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Computer Science - Volume 7
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper will be proposed a method of developing specific disease data warehouse such as hypertension data warehouse. Significant steps in developing the data warehouse will be described especially data extraction, transformation and loading part. The purpose of developing this data warehouse is to help the specialist to figure out the best and suitable strategies to be implemented during the screening, referral and follow up process. As the data may come from various sources mostly different websites, the amount of time spent of this tasks is often underestimated. Issues on how we crawl the data from various data sources and store it into database will be discussed further.