Managing evolving code sets and integration of multiple data sources in health care analytics

  • Authors:

  • James P. McGlothlin;Latifur Khan

  • Affiliations:

  • Fusion Consulting Inc, Irving, TX, USA;The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Data management & analytics for healthcare
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper presents our industry experience related to developing data warehouses for healthcare analytics. With the rapid advancement of medical record digitization, there is a very large amount of information available for analysis. With the heavy focus on driving down health care costs, managing preventive care and improving patient outcomes and satisfaction, there is a growing emphasis on healthcare metrics and analytics. The information for a single patient's history is composed of data from every hospital, provider, lab, pharmacy and insurance company the patient has encountered. This information needs to be viewed as a whole to accurately analyze the patient's health. In turn, each patient's complete health information is needed to accurately evaluate the performance of his or her providers. This paper will address some challenges we have faced when merging and correlating these diverse data sources. We will provide our solutions and experience addressing key challenges including code set integration and migration and patient identification.