Understanding enterprise data warehouses to support clinical and translational research: enterprise information technology relationships, data governance, workforce, and cloud computing.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Among National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hubs, effective approaches for enterprise data warehouses for research (EDW4R) development, maintenance, and sustainability remain unclear. The goal of this qualitative study was to understand CTSA EDW4R operations within the broader contexts of academic medical centers and technology.

Materials and methods

We performed a directed content analysis of transcripts generated from semistructured interviews with informatics leaders from 20 CTSA hubs.

Results

Respondents referred to services provided by health system, university, and medical school information technology (IT) organizations as "enterprise information technology (IT)." Seventy-five percent of respondents stated that

SUBMITTER: Knosp BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8922193 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature