Clinical Data Warehouse Functionality

Data Warehousing is a buzz-phrase that has taken the information systems world by storm. It seems that in every industry publication, there are articles explaining how this relates to financial and marketing data, yet there is very little information about how the concept of data warehousing applies to the research and development side of the biomedical industry. This paper aims to review some information presented at PharmaSUG 1998 in the paper “The Clinical Data Warehouse”; detail how this information has been acted upon; outline the lessons learned and finally specify areas of new functionality that have been identified to further aid in the clinical research process. This paper is aimed at anyone interested in obtaining a general