Data Warehouse-based Health Care Decision-making Support System

With the establishing and utilizing of the hospitalization insurance management system, lots of data and information about the Hospitalization Insurance have been accumulated during the daily operation. But these data cannot be used directly for hospitalization insurance decision.The hospitalization insurance management organization is urged to establish the hospitalization insurance decision support system (DSS) on the basis of the Data Warehouse. This system is used to support the making and modification of the hospitalization insurance policies and the effective management of hospitalization insurance.This thesis analyzes the development of our country's hospitalization insurance and DSS, discusses the architecture and the general developing method of the data warehouse-based DSS. Besides, it introduces the relative technology such as data warehouse technology, OLAP, data mining etc.Combined with the development of Taixing hospitalization insurance management system, this thesis stresses the system architecture of the data warehouse based HDSS, the ETL rules, and the design of the DSS application. Finally, it presents the procedure of the development and the realization of the system with a real instance.