Evaluation of radiology data warehouse implementation on education, research, and quality assurance

Abstract

Implementation of data warehouse in the field of business has been profitable for the company. Nevertheless, the data warehouse implementation has not been widely applied in the field of healthcare. The purpose of this research was to determine the effectiveness of radiological data warehouse implementation in the fields of education, research, and guarantee the quality of radiology services in the hospital. Evaluation was carried out to the radiology data warehouse dashboard that had been previously developed. Specific targets to be achieved were to get input from the radiologist for the development of radiology data warehouse implemented in the hospital or radiology clinic. The methods used were data collection through literature study and questionnaires as well as radiology data warehouse evaluation in accordance with Inmon (2005). The results obtained from this study were to know the degree of interest and radiologists perception about the radiology data warehouse dashboard. It was concluded that the most important report for radiologist was the dashboard of patient demographics and the non-volatile characteristics required special attention because it was quite important for all dashboards.