MEDITECH
Data
Repository
product brief
MEDITECH's Data
Repository provides health care organizations an open environment
for powerful reporting and decision-support tools. The integrity
and consistency of the Data Repository database results from the
tight integration inherent in the MEDITECH Health Care
Information System (HCIS).
Highlights:
• Allows organizations to report on
clinical, administrative, and financial data
• Provides fast, easy generation of
reports
• Supports off-the-shelf tools for
analysis and presentation of targeted data
• Data collected from the MEDITECH HCIS
can be integrated with information from other vendors' systems
• Allows organizations to collect, store,
and report on information from facilities throughout the
continuum
• Enhances efficiency of transactional
system.
Standard
Features
Industry-Standard
Access Tools
The Data Repository employs
industry standards such as:
• Microsoft Windows NT® operating system
• Microsoft SQL Server® Relational Database Management
System
Components
The Data Repository is made up
of the following components:
• The MEDITECH Data Repository application
• The MEDITECH Data Repository Manager
• A database on Microsoft SQL Server. This database of
relational tables offers users the ability to custom design
queries using third party software.
Reporting
Flexibility
• Provides fast, easy
generation of reports
• Allows for graphical display of data
• Provides an open environment and assures organizations of
a stable and continually-evolving platform
• Supports off-the-shelf, industry standard software tools,
like Microsoft Access®, for analysis and presentation of
targeted data
• Implements consistent naming conventions and foreign key
designations. These standard features offer the following
benefits:
– An environment
enabling streamlined report development and updates
– An environment
providing virtually unlimited opportunities for development
efforts using the Data Repository as a foundation.
• Tables are defined with clustered indexes, which are based
on the primary key constraint on the table. Customers have the
flexibility to create additional nonclustered indexes as needed
to optimize their unique reporting needs.
Accepts
Data from Other Vendors and Industries
The Data Repository provides
an open environment where data accumulated from the MEDITECH
applications can be integrated with information from non-MEDITECH
products. The Data Repository can collect, store, and report on
information from:
• Acute care hospitals
• Ambulatory clinics
• Physicians' practices
• Home health care agencies
• Rehabilitation facilities
• Skilled nursing facilities
• Psychiatric facilities
• Hospice centers
• Independent specialty clinics
• Insurance companies.
Other vendor and
industry data can be incorporated into the MEDITECH system in
several ways. An organization may employ one or maybe all of the
below options:
• Standard interface protocols. Validation and referential
integrity checks occur when the data is filed in the application,
as with any interfaced data, thus ensuring imported information
conforms to the care organization's standards and established
nomenclature.
• By filing the data directly to the Microsoft SQL server
the new data and associated tables can be correlated seamlessly
with existing data in the MEDITECH system
• Customer-defined screens to capture and report on data
from other organizations, including insurance companies (for
example, admissions insurance queries).
Enhances
Efficiency of Transactional System
Users can report on
information in the Data Repository without impacting the speed of
their live environment. Physicians, clinicians, and other staff
using the MEDITECH HCIS are not adversely impacted by any
analyses taking place in the Data Repository.
Access
to Health Care Data for Reporting and Decision Support
The Data Repository contains
data from the clinical, administrative, and financial
applications down to detail level. The Data Repository allows
care organizations to:
• Simplify report development through the utilization of
standard column naming conventions
• Study data to conduct business and research analyzes
• Quickly analyze the broad scope of information and draw
conclusions about patient treatment strategies, strategic
planning, and outcomes reporting
• Identify cost efficiency levels on an overall
organizational basis, and on a provider-by-provider basis.
Powerful
Reporting Capabilities
The Data Repository collects
information on patients throughout an enterprise, organizes it
for study, and makes it completely flexible for intensive
reporting and analysis.
• Data currently available in the MEDITECH HCIS can be
initially loaded into the Data Repository, allowing reporting and
decision-support benefits to be realized the day the initial
loads have completed
• Vast storage capacity provides immediate access to
comprehensive historical data
• Data which is updated in an application is also updated in
the Data Repository
• Users can create custom tables, using the industry-standard
SQL tools
• Users may custom-design queries using third-party software
to perform unlimited analysis on patient populations
• Standard views designed to run under Microsoft Access are
provided with the Data Repository. Users may copy these views as
a template and make modifications to create their own views. Some
areas where views exist include:
– Resource Utilization
– Indicators
– Cardiovascular
– Obstetrics
– Financials
– Abstracting
– Scheduling Performance
– Physician Evaluation
– Infection Control
– Pharmacy Utilization.
Flexible
Scalability
Users have the option of
selecting either the batch mode or the continuous mode of update.
• Batch processing of transfers from the MEDITECH
applications to the SQL database at user-defined times. The
update is typically scheduled when network traffic is low, for
example, at two or three o'clock in the morning.
• Continuous processing of transfers from the MEDITECH
applications to the SQL database. This mode offers the customer
the ability to distribute the workload, associated with sending
data to the repository, throughout the day.
Security
Access to the data within the
Data Repository is completely controlled by the security features
inherent in Windows NT and the SQL server. This security is very
flexible and can restrict user access to specified tables and/or
columns in a table. Row level security can also be realized by
the use of Views.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com