Bryan Bergeron Wins HIMSS 2008 Book of the Year Award for 'Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise'.BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Bryan Bergeron, MD has received the prestigious Book of the Year Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Founded in 1961, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is a healthcare industry membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of medical informatics technology and management systems. , for his work on data warehousing. Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise features an actual data warehousing project plan, and illustrates how implementing a data warehouse can help drive process improvements and increase patient safety and quality of care. The Book of the Year Award honors work that offers outstanding practical guidance and/or strategic insight for healthcare information and management systems professionals. A physician, intellectual property consultant and healthcare informatics expert, Bergeron writes a first-hand account from the trenches, with lessons for enterprises in all industries. The book was published in 2008 by HIMSS HIMSS Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society . "Delivering quality, affordable healthcare in a timely manner is possible with appropriate human processes, leveraged with appropriate enabling technologies," said Bergeron. "Of the emerging technologies in healthcare, business intelligence, knowledge management, and data warehousing hold the greatest promise as enabling agents. However, working with these technologies requires an understanding of the potential implementation perils, costs, and reasonable expectations of return on investment." The book chronicles Bergeron's experiences with a data warehouse implementation at King Faisal Specialist Hospital History King Faisal Specialist Hospital was established on 450,000 square meters of land which was donated by King Faisal who laid the cornerstone of this hospital in 1970 (the current total land of the hospital is 920,000 square meters). and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Co-authors include Hamad Al-Daig, BS, MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration ; Enam UL Hoque, BS, MBA, PMP See point-to-multipoint and portable media player. PMP - Portable Media Player ; Fadwa Saad AlBawardi, BS, MS; Osama Alswailem, MD KFSH&RC is a large, modern, tertiary-care hospital with an IT environment that parallels a typical U.S. hospital. The authors offer an honest assessment of their journey--from the lessons learned and methods explored to the solutions ultimately achieved. The final implementation transformed KFSH&RC into a more effective knowledge-based organization. About Bryan Bergeron Bryan Bergeron, MD, writes, speaks and consults about business technology and the intersection of computers and medicine. The author of 24 books and several hundred articles, Dr. Bergeron's expertise extends from robotics to digital data management and from medical informatics to modeling and simulation. He is a member of the Affiliate Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Founded in 1970, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, or HST, is one of the oldest and largest biomedical engineering and physician-scientist training programs in the United States and the longest-standing functional collaboration between Harvard and and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . Since 1996, he has headed Archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. Technologies Inc., which consults on the development of new technologies. For more information visit www.BryanBergeron.com. |
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