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p QUESTION: What benefits of an enterprise data warehouse are fueling adoption rates? ANSWER: To understand what is fueling adoption rates, you need to look no further than the objectives that healthcare organizations are focused on achieving. Increasingly, those objectives are influenced by healthcare reform mandates for quality improvements and cost reductions. The inability to achieve desired outcomes can lead to noncompliance; conversely, improvements and cost savings can bring rewards. With this in mind, the best way to understand your progress toward objectives and make decisions in real time to stay on track lies in your ability to access and analyze meaningful data from a single source point. This is where an Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) brings the greatest value and ROI. An EDW empowers organizations to aggregate, extract, organize and analyze a wider range of information in real time that previously resided in silos, providing the business intelligence for decision making. With an EDW you can look deeper into costs and patient outcomes, demonstrate compliance with core measures and make improvements in a timely manner. You can do the hard work of pulling data manually, or simply query your EDW for information related to everything from readmission rates to usage utilization. Beyond decision making, an EDW can provide data for a broad spectrum of initiatives, such as grant writing, research studies and clinical trials. An EDW is a very powerful tool. Jason B. Buskirk is chief operating officer at Health Care DataWorks, where he leads product strategies for pre-built analytics applications. Buskirk has almost 10 years of experience engineering and designing business intelligence solutions for healthcare clients. Jason can be reached at info@hcdataworks.com. For more information on Health Care DataWorks, visit their website at www.hcdataworks.com. 31 This special section of HIT Exchange offers an expert perspective about health information technology. Expert: Jason B. Buskirk Chief Operating Officer at Health Care DataWorks Contact: info@ hcdataworks.com 877.979.4239 hcdataworks.com SPO T L IGH T