Mission
What is the mission of HDWA and why was it created?
- To facilitate greater use of analytical information systems that help lower health care costs; improve quality of care; and improve patient satisfaction and safety
- To advance the state of health care data warehousing and analytics by applying lessons and experience from other industries
- A lack of emphasis by other professional organizations on the operational issues affecting data warehousing in healthcare
- To assist other health care organizations that were just beginning or struggling to be successful with data warehousing and analytics
- To influence vendors-the fairness of their pricing, the quality of their products and services, their willingness to share our risk, and their understanding of issues unique to health care
- To facilitate the development of standards and best practices that could lower the costs of development and operations for enterprise wata warehouses in health care
How does HDWA accomplish its mission?
- By fostering collaboration among member organizations
- By sharing lessons learned (both successes and failures)
- By focusing on simplicity and minimizing organizational overhead
- By sponsoring an annual conference for participating members
- By sponsoring monthly conference calls with peers dedicated to lessons learned and brainstorming - none of us is smarter than all of us
- By creating a collegial atmosphere of friends
- We pick up the phone and call each other or send an email and expect a response
- Collaboration --not competition-- with HIMSS, AMIA, and other professional groups
