title: Commercial clinical data warehouses: from wave of the past to the state of the art.
abstract: This article provides an overview of clinical data warehousing and its historical perspective from the early 1990s to present. It uses a survey of five Houston-area healthcare leaders to answer questions such as why commercially available solutions may be more suitable as their enterprise information systems vs. developing them in-house. Which products and vendors are servicing these organizations? What are these organizations looking for when making such strategic purchases? In general, this work is intended as a guideline for healthcare entities to further investigate the commercial clinical data warehousing market and get a feel for industry trends.
authors.affiliation: Zain-Carlson Consulting Company.
authors.forename: Mobin Uddin
authors.initials: MU
authors.lastname: Akhtar
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Jack W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D049673:History, 20th Century; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000266:history*; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States