Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW)
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information & Technology, has the mission to provide a high-performance business intelligence infrastructure through standardization, consolidation and streamlining of clinical data systems. Toward this end OI&T has built the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) and 4 Regional Data Warehouses (RDW1-4)
The CDW program is central to business management, clinical and administrative research, and healthcare system innovation.
Information into Insight
- Improve health care quality and patient safety system-wide, maintaining leadership in managing large and unique populations, and ultimately transforming VHA to become an industry benchmark for health care outcomes.
- Supporting medical and rehabilitation research in support of key VHA directives.
- Realign resources to serve veterans based on market demand that is significantly influenced by market demographics.
- Improve access, convenience, timeliness of health care services, and patient satisfaction among all veteran populations.
- Efficiently manage the needs of an aging veteran population while at the same time balancing the needs of new (and younger) veterans.
- Participate in Homeland Security directives and missions by coordinating emergency response, participating in biosurveillance activities, and conducting simulations.
The mission of CDW
- Deliver better visibility and higher availability across departments
- Leverage existing IT infrastructure investment
- Provides a repeatable and large scale data warehouse
Regional Data Warehouse (RDW)
The RDWs are near real-time collections of key data extracted from VistA required to efficiently manage the healthcare system.
- Standard Information to support management decision-making
- Standard Architectures rather than independent disparate Data Warehouses (DW) and Data Marts (DM) development by individual entities
- Standard Tools for robust access, reporting and analysis of data at the enterprise level
