Physicians and hospital administrators’ compensation is increasingly dependent on compliance to external measures such as P4P, JCAHO, and the Leapfrog Group. Systems to support quality and patient safety initiatives in hospitals are too primitive to keep pace with increasing demands. The critical fuel for both groups is high quality clinical data. Independent attempts to supply the data have failed because of redundant efforts that limit resources and result in fragmented data marts. The Analytical Healthcare Repository (AHR) is a collaboration framework to centralize the management of patient information for analytical purposes. The resulting reliable and efficient flow of data empowers researchers and clinicians to achieve higher performance goals. Researchers are able to publish leading results first, while clinicians deliver higher quality care, increase patient safety, and lower costs.

The demand for quality assessment and aggregate analytical tools in healthcare is growing faster than the available resources and tools to support them. Providers and researchers alike are encountering data access, analysis, and management barriers. The Analytical Health Repository (AHR) is a new approach to analytical healthcare applications that addresses the full spectrum of analytical needs by delivering a data warehouse comprised of electronic medical record (EMR) data, genomic information, and patient billing data with the capacity to simultaneously support applications for healthcare operations and clinical research.

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