Implementation of Business Intelligence in radiation oncology reveals challenges in structured data use, suggesting improvements for good clinical practices.
Business intelligence (BI) solutions are nowadays offered as part of radiation oncology information systems (ROIS). They support state-of-the-art extraction of structured data for business and research use cases. The variety of use cases often comes with specific customizations for which IT experts are required. The involvement of the IT experts from the hospital data warehouse (DWH) or architecture teams adds value to secondary use of data in the line of good clinical practices (GCP). We summarize our experience implementing a BI module in a radiation oncology department, discuss key challenges, and give some recommendations for addressing them.
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