Bryan Bergeron Wins HIMSS 2008 Book of the Year Award for ‘Developing a Data Warehouse for the Healthcare Enterprise’

BROOKLINE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bryan Bergeron, MD has received the prestigious Book of the Year Award from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, 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.

“Delivering quality, affordable healthcare in a timely manner is possible with appropriate human processes, leveraged with appropriate enabling technologies”

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.

“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 and Research Center (KFSH&RC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Co-authors include Hamad Al-Daig, BS, MBA; Enam UL Hoque, BS, MBA, PMP; 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 and an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. Since 1996, he has headed Archetype Technologies Inc., which consults on the development of new technologies. For more information visit www.BryanBergeron.com.