1 Overview

This document describes secure configuration practices for Oracle HDWF.

Healthcare providers require insight from data that is spread across clinical, financial, administrative, and research systems. Oracle HDWF enables better clinical and business insights by serving as a single repository to deliver an enterprise view of all provider data.

This single, integrated-view data warehouse repository simplifies deployment of analytic applications, yielding the insights required to unlock electronic information. This helps providers:

identify best practices and develop practice guidelines.
measure clinical and operational performance against defined metrics.
improve decision making and prevent mistakes.

Healthcare managers and executives can ultimately leverage information from the data warehouse to identify areas of the enterprise with superior performance, analyze and understand the relevant processes, and spread the knowledge throughout the organization to establish new best practice guidelines.

The HDWF data model is in third normal form (3NF) and stores data elements at the atomic level. It also supports bi-temporal versioning for all data along with functional and system dates and times. It is customizable and extensible, well documented.