title: Information warehouse - a comprehensive informatics platform for business, clinical, and research applications.
abstract: Since its inception in 1997, the IW (Information Warehouse) at the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) has gradually transformed itself from a single purpose business decision support system to a comprehensive informatics platform supporting basic, clinical, and translational research. The IW today is the combination of four integrated components: a clinical data repository containing over a million patients; a research data repository housing various research specific data; an application development platform for building business and research enabling applications; a business intelligence environment assisting in reporting in all function areas. The IW is structured and encoded using standard terminologies such as SNOMED-CT, ICD, and CPT. The IW is an important component of OSUMC's Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) informatics program.
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamal
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostrander
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Santangelo
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dyta
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Hagop S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Mekhjian
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D009820:Ohio; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical