title: Using data warehousing and OLAP in public health care.
abstract: The paper describes the possibilities of using data warehousing and OLAP technologies in public health care in general and then our own experience with these technologies gained during the implementation of a data warehouse of outpatient data at the national level. Such a data warehouse serves as a basis for advanced decision support systems based on statistical, OLAP or data mining methods. We used OLAP to enable interactive exploration and analysis of the data. We found out that data warehousing and OLAP are suitable for the domain of public health and that they enable new analytical possibilities in addition to the traditional statistical approaches.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Vrazov trg 2/2, 1105 Ljubljana, Slovenia. dimitar.hristovski@mf.uni-lj.si
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hristovski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rogac
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Markota
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D009862:Online Systems; D011634:Public Health; D017524:Slovenia; D013223:Statistics as Topic