Built on big data analytics and cloud computing, the Health Data Warehouse (MyHDW) is a business intelligence and data warehouse platform. It handles data analytics, ad-hoc queries, and dashboard needs for healthcare professionals, while meeting the requirements of health informatics standards.

The benefits run wide and deep. Collecting, managing, and using health information is central to improving the quality and efficiency of a country’s health system. MyHDW gives health leaders what they need to ensure quality care gets delivered, and that translates directly into better health outcomes.

A healthcare authority faces real pressure to keep a health system responsive: rising expectations from citizens, shifting disease patterns and demographics, a growing need for integration, accessibility, and affordability, and constant pressure to run more efficiently. Add in the rising use of evidence-based decision-making and performance measurement, and the need for trusted, accessible health data only grows.

To meet these needs, the Health Data Warehouse (MyHDW) was built as a platform to standardize and integrate health data from multiple sources, including Electronic Medical Records, Electronic Health Records, and clinical administrative systems. That creates a trusted source of information, one that helps manage the health system more effectively, supports surveillance, and serves as a valuable resource for research.

The MyHDW solution for the Ministry of Health runs on locally developed technology platforms, linked together to form a complete, robust, and open business intelligence and data warehouse. It’s built to produce hundreds of national health reports, ad-hoc queries, and dashboards.

The platform is central yet scalable, giving various MOH business units the ability to generate and access relevant reports and drill deep into their own data marts.

MyHDW is built to start small and scale out as the Ministry of Health adds more data sources to the warehouse, drawing on newer technologies like big data analytics and cloud computing as it grows. It runs entirely in the browser, so there’s no complex client software to install or manage. High-speed analysis with data acceleration means it can answer critical business questions fast. Security runs at every level of data processing through a homegrown IT security framework, backed by tight identity and role management.

For the Ministry, MyHDW delivers national health information that’s accurate, timely, and trusted. It presents an integrated, consolidated view of the country’s health, tracks the Ministry’s key performance indicators effectively, and is built for long-term sustainability.

Collecting, managing, and using health information is central to improving the quality and efficiency of the country’s health system. MyHDW gives health leaders a better way to measure performance and confirm quality care is actually being delivered, which leads to better health outcomes. It also ties healthcare spending to measurable results. With this solution in place, the Health Informatics Centre can operate at a higher level, providing trusted data and information within the Ministry and, eventually, to the public.

MyHDW’s key benefits: a high-quality, trusted source of information that supports effective management of the health system; secure, privacy-sensitive data access; integrated, interoperable data drilling that answers questions across the full continuum of care; support for research and surveillance needs; output available at different levels and through a range of tools and interfaces; and higher analytical productivity and efficiency.

MyHDW can grow to include more data sources and capabilities, an ICD-10 auto code generator among them, helping medical records personnel assign ICD codes faster and more accurately. Boosting the BDA infrastructure would sharpen its analytics capabilities further. And adding more data sources from across different systems would widen the scope of data analytics for the whole Ministry of Health.