EDW Reporting Facilitates Ongoing EHR System Improvements at Northwestern

David Liebovitz, MD, CMIO, Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation and Medical Director of Clinical Information Systems, Northwestern Memorial Hospital. This presentation illustrates selected design approaches and benefits from the new enterprise data warehouse at Northwestern. Specifically, a high level overview of the process of accepting clinical and administrative content is reviewed, followed by selected examples of how findings from this data aggregation process have been leveraged to improve the clinical data collection process in anticipation of further automation of quality and research reporting.