Metadata Unveils a Data Warehouse for Diseases

The Metadata Company (Long Beach, CA) has created a data warehouse for collecting, storing and processing disease-specific data. The Disease Data Warehouse is based on Metadata's Metamodel, Unified DBMS, Integrated Repository and DataConvert Tool products. It serves as a repository for disease data from numerous healthcare systems, such as electronic records, claims, medication and lab systems, and clinical databases. Together with Eli Lilly

(Indianapolis), the two companies have created a system that manages diabetes-specific data to support outcomes analysis and reporting; the resulting information and reports will be accessible to participating organizations. "Bringing disease data together is very difficult," said Metadata president Jack Myers, "because it typically involves disparate systems." The project, he added, "goes a long way toward making disease data integration a reality."