Health Care Data Works Chosen by Orlando Health to Build Enterprise Data Warehouse

A spinoff of The Ohio State University has been selected by Orlando Health to build its enterprise data warehouse (EDW).  Health Care Data Works (HCD), a two-year-old Central Ohio startup, was selected from a field of big name competitors, including Oracle, Intel and Microsoft, for the five-year, multi-million dollar assignment. 

HCD will supply Orlando Health with its signature application which it refers to as an Enterprise Data Warehouse in a Box.  The solution provides a series of dashboards from which administrators can monitor, analyze and act upon data gathered from a number of other software applications – the end result of which is enhanced performance and cost savings. “Hospitals typically have 100 or more disparate software applications that are used for various transaction-based workflows,” explains Dr. Herb Smaltz, HCD’s CEO.

“It was an easy decision to go with Health Care DataWorks," says Alex Veletsos, chief applications officer for Orlando Health.  “While we could have spent years building an EDW from scratch, HCD’s offerings provide us with the ability to save 18-36 months of time getting to the value delivery we expect from our EDW, and also provide us with a partner with deep experience in the healthcare provider business intelligence space.”

HCD’s roots can be traced to the OSU Medical Center’s IT department where exercises in healthcare data warehousing began in the late 90s.  HCD retains exclusive rights to OSU Medical Center’s data model which is the foundation of its EDW appliance.

For more information, see the release from HCD

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