An operational data store for reporting clinical practice guideline adherence in chronic disease patients

An operational data store was designed to extract, load and transform data contained in a transactional outcomes management database. The system was designed to be easily updatable from the production environment, and provide rapid, widely accessible reporting capabilities. Clinical practice guideline success data, patient-reported outcomes measures, and clinical patient data were collected from many systems to populate the data warehouse and data store. Five years of patient data in the Walter Reed Health Care System have been loaded, and refreshed on an on-going periodic basis. Reporting tools enabled users to drill down from the hospital, to clinic, to provider level for compliance measures, success rates, and various other metrics. The operational data store helped the Walter Reed Health Care System achieve certification in six disease-specific care Certifications of Distinction from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.