title: Mission critical challenges: a data repository that addresses everyone's needs.
abstract: Ochsner Health Plan, New Orleans.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The health plan's information systems were inflexible and ineffective in meeting the needs of healthcare administrators, clinicians and others within the organization.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ochsner officials reorganized the information systems by restructuring the computing architecture and building an enterprisewide relational database.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Separate departments within the health plan now can share the same base of clinical and financial data online.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  "The new server gave us the benefits of a centralized system combined with powerful back-end processing capabilities that enabled online analytical processing."
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fain
mesh_terms: D002910:Chronology as Topic; D003199:Computer Systems; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008145:Louisiana; D008838:Microcomputers; D009862:Online Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies